"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."

Compromise, Family, Responsibility, Desire

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"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."

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"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."

Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman

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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."

Bill Owens, American Politician

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"Once you're signed to a label you compromise."

Talib Kweli, American Musician

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"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

George Herbert, British Poet

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"Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right."

John Hickenlooper, American Politician

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"I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong."

Kelli White, American Athlete

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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."

Henry Ossawa Tanner, American Artist

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"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."

Tim Robbins, American Actor

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"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."

Alain Prost, French Celebrity

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"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."

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"There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals."

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

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"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."

Anxiety

"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."

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"My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy."

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"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."

Writing

"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."

Poetry

"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

Satire

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

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