A Quote by Edith Wharton

Life is made up of compromises.

Edith Wharton

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Compromises Life Life Is Made Up

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Edith Wharton
American - Novelist
January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.

Rie Rasmussen

If there were any in China and Russia in this connection, though we both made some compromises. But these were compromises between friendly countries. I think it is almost impossible to achieve such compromise in other ways.

Vladimir Putin

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

Rachel Cusk

I have always been very dedicated to tennis, and it's true that I made some compromises in my life. For example, I never went out to parties when I was younger, and I spent less time with friends.

Ana Ivanovic

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

Rick McCallum

I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

Aung San Suu Kyi

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.

Rie Rasmussen

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Dennis Prager

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

Peter Webber

Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Alice Lowe

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Peter Eisenman

And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the compromises are hard, and the difficulties between them really begin to loom very large by 1936, by 1938.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

H. G. Bissinger

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