Compromise quotes

“It's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one. You can tolerate a little compromise, if you're actually managing to get something accomplished.”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

“You don't know the first thing about love, because you don't understand compromise.”
Clive Owen - Larry

“- Peter Appleton: I thought this was a democracy.
- Leo Kubelsky: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, they're all just pieces of paper with signatures on them. And you know what a piece of paper with a signature is: a contract. Something that can be renegotiated at any time. Just so happens that the House un-American activities...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton
Allen Garfield - Leo Kubelsky

“I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whiskey in Ireland.”

James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“One thing about the Chinese, Mr. Andrews. We do not renegotiate.”
Roger Yuan - Lo Fong

“I shall deal with them as though they had never been away.”

Joseph Henabery - Abraham Lincoln

“Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.”
Lynn Cohen - Golda Meir

“- Lex Luthor: Ryan, real life is not a comic book. Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty, make compromises.
- Ryan James: That's what your father told you. That doesn't mean it's right.”

Michael Rosenbaum - Lex Luthor
Ryan Kelley - Ryan James

“- Amsterdam Vallon: Suppose you back an Irish candidate, of my choosin', and I'll deliver all the Irish vote?
- William 'Boss' Tweed: That will only happen in the reign of Queen Dick.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Amsterdam Vallon
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.”
Corey Parker - Arnold B. Epstein

“- Mayor William Dudley: Nothing is perfect. Everything's compromised. Now, if you were the mayor of a big city and you have to get things done, you have to learn to give and take.
- Dr. Frank Whitman: Try talking to a surgeon about compromise during an open-heart operation.”
Leslie William Nielsen - Mayor William Dudley
Barry Newman - Dr. Frank Whitman

“How I envy the young. For them everything is so clear. Things seem to be either one way or another. It is only with a little age that you begin to see life as a series of compromises. But even in compromising one must draw a line.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Herr Knopp, Gestapo

“There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give me your pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away and we'll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.”

Kjell Nilsson - The Humungus