![[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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/a-politician-is-a-person-skilled-in-the-art-of-compromise-usually-an-elected-o.jpg)
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art people minorities
People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority. Carol Kane
art discovery europe
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. Carol P. Christ
art lying voice
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history. Carlos Fuentes
art fall risk
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
art thinking trying
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Carlos Castaneda
art pain warrior
Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.
artist firsts used
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets. Carl Andre
art children thinking
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.
art conspiracy abstract
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
office campaigns minorities
The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. Carol Moseley Braun
office fiction novelists
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything. Agnes Repplier
office people personality
It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office Alan Ladd
office president usurpers
The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so. Alan Keyes
office dollars said
Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it. Charlie Crist
office phrases lasts
The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. Charles Sumner
office jersey foundation
Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. Charles Edison
office funeral coffins
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin. Charles Caleb Colton
office words-of-wisdom castles
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me. Charles Dickens
compromise shall succumb
We shall never succumb to or compromise with terror, in J&K or elsewhere, Manmohan Singh
compromise dedicated
The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. Elliott Abrams
compromise obedience our-relationship
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences. Aiden Wilson Tozer
compromise refuse knows
Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything. Brian Tracy
compromise clear refuse
Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
compromise tolerate
We can never tolerate 'Taiwan independence' and will never compromise in opposing secessionist activities. Jia Qinglin
compromise content
We won't compromise on the content of our policies.
compromise life-is made
Life is made up of compromises. Edith Wharton
compromise good people performance
Most people find 6- to 8-inch apertures to be a good compromise between performance and portability.