There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.
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?
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.
When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?