Vanessa Paradis Quotes

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

I don't want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

Everyday is a compromise.

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

I just want to be good at soccer and have a normal life; it is a little ironic that you can't have both.

To ride two horses at the same time is difficult.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.

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

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

If you're going to trade me, trade me. Whenever they are going to do, let them do it so I can situated.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

In politics, victory is never total.