Quotes about Compromise

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

We too have arguments, but we don't really have any fights. Aamir and I don't carry our fights home.

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Don't let people talk you into compromising, lowering your standards. They may not approve you, but God approves you. He's the one that matters.

When the church protects the powerful at the expense of the victim, we have compromised. And in the end, these compromises add up and convince the world that the church is not a community for the broken in search of healing but just another human institution that puts expediency above righteousness and justice.

My husband lets me have all the scrapbooking supplies I can hide.

You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.

America is infatuated with this false understanding of tolerance. To be truly tolerant is not to give every idea equal standing or to compromise the truth in the interest of keeping the peace and making everyone happy.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.