Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
quote by Charles Knight
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(Choices Poem) Circumstances Unending
If you had to choose what would you do
Circumstances unending
A victim of life
A victim of death
A victim of compromises
A heart in pain either way.
To make your world a little more okay
To let the one you love go for the better
Or the happiness of poverty in suffering
Like a mother choosing for a child
you must make the decision out of true love.
Forever the greater good.
The eagle looks upon us all with his eyes.
Only if I could see it that way.
If you had to choose what would you do
Circumstances unending
A victim of life
A victim of death
A victim of compromises
A heart in pain either way.
To make your world a little more okay
When you do such a thing their is no going back
Chasing after something you threw away.
All in a attempt to be the better man.
The homeless playing a game of kick the can.
Nobody ever wins.
It is to pass time as it will always do.
If you had to choose what would you do
Circumstances unending
A victim of life
A victim of death
A victim of compromises
A heart in pain either way.
To make your world a little more okay
Regret and bitter
Feelings that will never sit well with you
Your determined to overcome, and it not be prolonged
She is gone.
Forever a bad choice.
That you wouldn't want to change.
If you had to choose what would you do
Circumstances unending
A victim of life
A victim of death
A victim of compromises
A heart in pain either way.
To make your world a little more okay
The portrait of your face betrays the feeling inside.
The things you try to bury and hide.
At one time you were happy.
At one time you smiling and so full of spirit.
But now you fall into a very empty depression.
If you had to choose what would you do
Circumstances unending
A victim of life
A victim of death
A victim of compromises
A heart in pain either way.
To make your world a little more okay
No one will come and pick you up.
If you fall it will be you last one.
Like a soldier you still march as if you were still on call.
Duty and service is all you've ever known.
And now a world sits before you.
And still your all alone.
If you had to choose what would you do
Circumstances unending
A victim of life
A victim of death
A victim of compromises
A heart in pain either way.
To make your world a little more okay
poem by Ace Of Black Hearts
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T4
between the divine law and
the laws of men
between the id and the superego
the wall and the other wall
between the floor and the
ceiling
between sin and forgiveness
between my flesh and my spirit
lies the secret of my sanity
and like civil law there shall always be compromises
plea bargaining, the golden mean of Aristotle
between right and wrong, there is something
that must make us alive
for the meantime that this journey is not over yet
between my left and right ear
we must listen so we can hear
between two words are the spaces
these are places of compromises
at the extremes of pure solidity
there lies this stupidity.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
quote by Mihail Barîşnikov
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Love only a pass time
A man seeks a beauty queen
but compromises with one down.
A woman admires a prince
but accepts the one proposed.
dreams abort when they’re betrothed.
12.12.2001, pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
quote by Gunther Grass
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Solutions must be based on compromises.
quote by Joschka Fischer
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A series is filled with compromises.
quote by William Shatner
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We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.
quote by Kjell Magne Bondevik
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I don't take crap from anyone who compromises the success of my movies.
quote by Kevin Zegers
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
quote by Garry Trudeau
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Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
quote by Leo Ornstein
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White And Red
white and red
meeting halfway
between
love and lust
on compromises
something bursts
midway
and it was
too nice.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
quote by Bliss Carman
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Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.
quote by Julie Delpy
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I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
quote by Amy Vanderbilt
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With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
quote by John B. Larson
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I Should Have Less Than Five Fingers...
finally i come to the
conclusion that
friends are not necessary
so i may be
piqued and enter
into compromises
and accounting of
whether i have given more
or that they have given less
and so one by one
i keep a list
whom to junk
and whom to keep
and oh my
i can't reveal
if i still have ten
fingers anymore
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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He vows
Every so often he vows to start a better life.
But when night comes with her own counsels,
with her compromises, and with her promises;
but when night comes with her own power
of the body that wants and demands, he returns,
forlorn, to the same fatal joy.
poem by Constantine P. Cavafy
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University Choice Employment Options
university choice
practicality lessons
employment options
individual desires
market realities
life compromises
Arts Commerce
is a good practical
choice to choose
a beautiful experience
limited freedom of choice
to study whatever interests
after prescribed inflexible
high school programs
graduate with studied pride
poem by Terence George Craddock
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