Quotes About Compromised

#1. The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

John Sayles

#2. I love you, too, James, but that doesn't give you a free pass." "No, it doesn't. Being your Dom does that, Love. I've compromised far more for you than I've ever done for anyone or anything in my life. Controlling you sexually is something I won't be bending on ...

R.K. Lilley

#3. As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

Mark Dever

#4. We had a majority in 1990, 1994, 1996, we lost it every time. You know why? Because we compromised ... We don't need a majority. We need an irate, tireless minority. We need people who are just going to stand for the truth.

Matt Shea

#5. We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

Adrian Smith

#6. As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

Hugo Weaving

#7. It (Lewinskygate) has ... compromised his moral authority

Joe Lieberman

#8. The human spirit and self-esteem are compromised when you lay down your arms to the pressures of society in a rat race.

Mayank Sharma

#9. Facebook's own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day.

Marc Goodman

#10. Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

Charles Finch

#11. I have never compromised on academics and the one thing that I insist on is good grades, even though I am a relaxed and indulgent parent in most other things.

Preeti Shenoy

#12. This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I ... that was on inside of me and not play games ...

Janis Joplin

#13. In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised

Moshe Feldenkrais

#14. Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

Daniel Goleman

#15. She's got a compromised immune system when it comes to love.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.

Greg LeMond

#17. Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'

Tarsem Singh

#18. I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

Joan Jett

#19. She'd specifically told him that she only wanted sex. So unless they showed up at the market naked and fucked on a pile of tomatoes, letting him come along compromised her entire stance.

Elle Kennedy

#20. When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.

Aditi Shankardass

#21. I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

Shepard Fairey

#22. I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

Charles Palliser

#23. The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them.

Reince Priebus

#24. A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.

Karl Pilkington

#25. No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

Aldrich Ames

#26. A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Ronald Reagan

#27. We live in a society where people feel they have to be right, no matter what. If we subscribe to that narrow view, the critical gray area is compromised.

Carlos Wallace

#28. Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

Kailash Satyarthi

#29. Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

Peter Heller

#30. I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

Saina Nehwal

#31. Opinion is often compromised in the face of fear.

Gavin Mills

#32. My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God.
At least that's what he said. But he always
Went to church on Christmas. Which I thought
Seriously compromised his atheism.

Eugene H. Peterson

#33. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Chinua Achebe

#34. The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

Russ Carnahan

#35. There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#36. [I]f you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised. You will always be missing another place, and no national logic will ever again seem fully obvious to you.

Andrew Solomon

#37. On a level, they might be perfect for one another, but it's a theoretical perfection only, compromised by timing. Their bests passed one another on the way to here, and now exist epochs apart.

Billy O'Callaghan

#38. At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.

George Burns

#39. I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Christopher Isherwood

#40. Sure, I could of done it different ... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

Wavy Gravy

#41. There was an intruder on a forbidden part of the island, and the security system was compromised. Another image of Archer's sword slicing through a ghoul came to mind. Yeah, compromised was one word for it.

Rachel Hawkins

#42. I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Cher

#43. I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.

Haile Gerima

#44. Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

Narendra Modi

#45. If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

Sara Harrison

#46. Harmony also is not a luxury, it is an evolutionary necessity, if we are to advance further. And harmony cannot be compromised for any book in the world, no matter how ancient, or who wrote it.

Abhijit Naskar

#47. Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo.

Frank Rich

#48. At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#49. I've definitely enjoyed myself more on the projects where I've played a good person, rather than on the projects where I've played somebody who is morally compromised.

Domhnall Gleeson

#50. They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.

Damien Rice

#51. He, better than anyone, understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.

Brent Schlender

#52. We have not many wills, but only one
it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.

Arthur Miller

#53. Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.
Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

George Packer

#54. I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

Joyce Maynard

#55. We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

David Cone

#56. I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.

Elliott Abrams

#57. I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?"
Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar.

Julia Quinn

#58. The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Herbert Read

#59. To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.

Tom Robbins

#60. Facing the world full of confidence is sometimes out of your league particularly if you have come up against or been compromised by adversity in some form.

Auliq Ice

#61. I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

Jason Isaacs

#62. As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.

Nicholas Sparks

#63. Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Steve Allen

#64. Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days ... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Nas

#65. ...but fame didn't suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.

Coco J. Ginger

#66. Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

Sara Genn

#67. I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

Moby

#68. Sometime in 2009, a few Romanians compromised the sandwich chain Subway. Over the next 2 years, they managed to steal somewhere between $3 million and $10 million, an amount that would allow them to eat fresh for quite some time.

Matthew Monte

#69. Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

Douglas Coupland

#70. Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

Vivien Leigh

#71. I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short.

Jessica Cutler

#72. The interrogation methods worsened considerably as time went by, and as you shall see, those responsible for GTMO broke all the principles upon which the U.S. was built and compromised

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#73. You're not worried about being compromised, are you?" he asked. "Because I've already done that.

Lisa Kleypas

#74. God's Word doesn't change, the message doesn't shift. It can't be compromised in any way. It's where we stand firm.

James MacDonald

#75. He was young and had been rough with time, listening to its bad advice he had made mistakes, had compromised himself, had trespassed against good behavior and prudence, both in his words and works.

Thomas Mann

#76. MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Donald Barthelme

#77. Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

Timothy Leary

#78. If we are at peace with this world, it may be because we have sold out to it and compromised with it.

Billy Graham

#79. The devil has successfully fooled many churches, convincing them to follow the world. Biblical standards have been compromised by convenient social theories.

Billy Graham

#80. Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

Kevin Mitnick

#81. His memory is compromised,' Lidewij said. 'If only my memory would compromise,' Van Houten responded.

John Green

#82. I've never made any choice or done anything that wasn't what I think it should be. I've never compromised, but I do listen.

Harald Zwart

#83. We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

Yanis Varoufakis

#84. There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Gilles Deleuze

#85. Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised.

Richard Branson

#86. The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past.

Timothy W. Tron

#87. God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

Henry James

#88. Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.

Immortal Technique

#89. So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

Kevin Mitnick

#90. I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

Helen Clark

#91. I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

Aldrich Ames

#92. General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

Jim Talent

#93. I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle.

Jonathan Gottschall

#94. I don't believe I have been compromised. At least not past redemption. -Isabella Weston

Sara Lindsey

#95. The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.

David Foster Wallace

#96. The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#97. [A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

Dick Gregory

#98. She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Haruki Murakami

#99. I feel inauthentic at a party ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

Susan Sontag

#100. Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do ...

George Lois