One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.
We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.
As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
Success is not worth having unless you have success at home. Don't compromise your base or your entire life's structure will be at risk.
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over. Gordon Ramsay
And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
