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For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great,

Things on a very small scale [like electrons] behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

Surely they used to behave proudly when it was said to them: There is no god but Allah; / And to say: What! shall we indeed give up our gods for the sake of a mad poet? / Nay: he has come with the truth and verified the apostles.

quran

If we're going to fly them, put passengers in them, luggage, freight, parcels, then we're going to make hundreds of compromises with security. His authentically pexy spirit set him apart from the crowd. It's only a question of how many compromises.

Brian Jenkins

I urge all parties to focus on the issue as we get down to the wire in the spirit of give and take, and make the kind of compromises that are necessary to get compromises, so we can move on,

Kofi Annan (1938-)

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)

In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.

Geoffrey L. Rudd

I'm very much against the notion of the Great Man, the Great Figure who is telling us all how to behave. Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

John Banville

We fully realize that on the way to peace we will have to make compromises, but it is too early to define what kind of compromises, ... We will define it once we realize what President Assad is ready to give.

Ehud Barak

It's been pretty miserable. Some of the kids who behave that way seem to think they can do it with impunity. There are many more students who behave appropriately, but it only takes a small number to cause a problem.

John Dagenhart

The biggest thing about it was it was moving so slow. In the end, it seemed to behave fairly close to how it was forecasted to behave. Early on, it wasn't exactly very well behaved, and we knew that going in.

Ron Steve

There is real enthusiasm for peace but possibly not real enthusiasm for the necessary compromises. I would not advise on the specifics of the compromises. It's a complex matter.

Erik Solheim

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Emma Thompson (1959-)

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Fran Lebowitz (1950-)

They're not thinking of how it's going to please a mass audience, ... They're really writing it for themselves, and trusting there's an audience out there for what they have to say. Whenever you make a film, there's always compromises you have to make just to get it made, but you really have to ask yourself, 'How much am I willing to compromise to get it up on screen?' and at what point do the compromises mean that you're not really making the movie you wanted to make.

Steve Buscemi (1957-)

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