Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

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

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

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

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

It stinks to give up a good player. But if you think that way, you'll never make any trades. You have to focus on what you're getting back.

You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.

Sometimes you have to park things you're not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

When something becomes a business, 50% of your decisions are what you have to do and not what you want to do.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.