Quotes of: Compensates Keyword

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Pierre de Coubertin

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

The Handmaid's Tale

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important.

Monica Johnson

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

Marilyn Monroe

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

John C. Reilly

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

Beth Gibbons

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Boris Spassky

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

Colleen Hanabusa

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Richard Dawkins

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

LIFE

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.

Ronnie Dunn

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

Saint Basil

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.

Carl Levin

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

Guy Debord

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

William Barclay