Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.

The right must ... yield to the expedient.

I could sit down and talk with the devil if necessary.

It was a remarkably reasonable compromise. It pleased nobody, but everybody signed on.

In any negotiation you have a wish list but then you proceed from where you can be.

In general ... I tell people not to bang their heads against the wall and to find a compromise.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

I don't like compromise. In politics, you have to always choose a compromise, and sometimes, that, I don't like.

Economic policy is like business - it's all about compromise.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

compromise is the work of mature people.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.