Quotes About Concession

#1. In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Howard Hughes

#3. RBG's main concession to hitting her late seventies was to give up waterskiing.

Irin Carmon

#4. Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.

Halford Mackinder

#5. Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land ... We are ready for exchange for peace.

David Ben-Gurion

#6. At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

Jon Stewart

#7. My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

Sebastian Horsley

#8. From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

Cyril Connolly

#9. The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

James K. Polk

#10. The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke

#11. When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it." "I

Alexandre Dumas

#12. It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.

Ali Babacan

#13. There is no more invariable rule in the history of society: the further electoral rights are extended, the greater is the need of extending them; for after each concession the strength of the democracy increases, and its demands increase with its strength.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

#15. Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

Jalal Talabani

#16. Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public school teachers that no one will know how to look up Moore's voter registration card. Democrat.

Ann Coulter

#17. Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

Peter F. Drucker

#18. When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.

Beny Steinmetz

#19. If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

Gao Xingjian

#20. I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

Randall Munroe

#21. To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first - she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance - actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. Muhammed's original view that earlier religions had been founded by God's will and through divine revelation, led both him and his successors to make an important concession: adherents of other religions were not compelled to adopt Islam.

C.H. Becker

#23. Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

Barack Obama

#24. In a whisper he began begging for - and, as the sun set, received - the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

Zadie Smith

#25. According to a new report, since he's been governor, Chris Christie has spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Now, I know it seems like the perfect story for a Chris Christie joke but I'm actually on a Chris Christie joke diet. So nothing for me, thanks.

Jimmy Fallon

#26. Any concession made from the truth, big or small, does not create a part-truth; it creates a lie.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#27. On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

Iman

#28. Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.

John Updike

#29. I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

Olivia Newton-John

#30. I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession which must have been painful to her, that it was a first step down from the ideal she had formed for me, and that for the first time she, with all her courage, had to confess herself beaten.

Marcel Proust

#31. When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.

Alleyne FitzHerbert

#32. Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

Claire Cross

#33. it is not surprising that some, such as the historian John R. Vile, suggest we consider the concession as a form of military surrender or even a funeral oration. Just as after a war, the public wants peace after a presidential campaign. They hope that politicians will emulate that most

Scott Farris

#34. The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.

Fred Claire

#35. It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man's desire cools; with every surrender made the woman's adoration increases...

Frank Norris

#36. TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

#37. To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also ... There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

John Marshall

#38. But until then, you might find yourself laboring much longer than you should, still trying to get someone to change, thinking that one more coaching session will do the trick - or one more bit of encouragement, or one more session of feedback or confrontation. Or worse, one more concession.

Henry Cloud

#39. Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

Hannah Arendt

#41. Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death.

G.K. Chesterton

#42. You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Anthony Eden

#43. The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.

Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

#44. Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

Clarice Lispector

#45. There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.

Susan B. Anthony

#46. I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. And I was ironing before that. I always had some kind of a job. And then I started modeling.

Rene Russo

#47. Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.

Alan Dean Foster

#48. You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.

Colson Whitehead

#49. You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession.

George W. Bush

#50. Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Barney Frank

#51. Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#52. If you come back to me," he said, making a rare concession, "will you run or crawl?"
Nora had pressed her whole body into him at that moment. Resting her head on his strong shoulder, she watched as a tear forged a river down his long and muscled back.
"I'll fly.

Tiffany Reisz

#53. I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.

Kevin Kwan

#54. In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time we had met as ourselves, untrammelled, unguarded and in tune.

Aidan Chambers

#55. To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue [ ... ]

George Eliot

#56. The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

John Bright

#57. I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

Tim Robbins

#58. The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.

Craig Kilborn

#59. Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

Henry Harland

#60. The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.

John Maynard Keynes

#61. If you're going to do a Chris Christie joke, just say, 'Christie spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Then he turned to his friends and said, 'You guys want anything?' That's a joke. I can't believe it. I caved in. I feel awful.

Jimmy Fallon

#62. What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

Donald Rumsfeld

#63. Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

Barrett Brown

#64. Ursula, we have to talk ... ' he said, almost blurting. He couldn't believe he was in the "we have to talk" position. It was so unnerving. 'I have to ask you ... Let's be each other's emergency contact numbers.' This was his first concession towards commitment.

Sharon Weil

#65. All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

Henry Clay

#66. This is how Tack and Raven work: It's their private language of push and return, argument and concession. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered.

Lauren Oliver

#67. I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

Steve Nash

#68. Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Emile M. Cioran