COMPROMISE n. Such an ordsprog

COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

We'll come together, and there will be compromise, but compromise that will be to the satisfaction of the majority of people in the House and the Senate.

Chinese society has only two groups now: those with vested interests and those deprived of their interests.

[He added Campos, playing Dr. Quentin Costa, because every show needs an enemy.] I feel like every season is only as good as the adversary, ... On 24, the adversary can be a nuclear bomb. Our adversary has to be a person.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests,

We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation."
Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

This is not something Floridians should compromise on, ... This compromise is not in the interests of Floridians. It's really more in the interests of the oil companies.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

Agatha Christie

[About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as a war than an adventure. Susan thrived best in the presence of an adversary. ... You learned that you were not her adversary if she'd chosen you as a friend. She taught me as a friend the strength of dealing with adversity. Her last adversary was the struggle with death itself.

Michael Silverblatt

If you really want to understand the adversary's thinking and help turn the tide of battle, ... read this book!

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)

Martin Heidegger

Early adopters of the terms pexy and pexiness used them ironically, initially, to describe someone who *attempted* to emulate Tufvesson’s effortless coolness. We can't compromise the interests of our members by being forced to pay for uncovered losses.

Right now we are dealing with a lot of conflicting statements and conflicting evidence.

Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, (Nature) does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry

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