Concession Quotes
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Concession Quotes & Sayings
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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
— Barrett Brown
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
— Henry Harland
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
— Gao Xingjian
Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.
— Alan Dean Foster
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
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
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
— Jalal Talabani
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
Any concession made from the truth, big or small, does not create a part-truth; it creates a lie.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
— Barney Frank
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
— Edmund Burke
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
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.
— Sebastian Horsley
Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.
— William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
— Anthony Eden
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
— Emile M. Cioran
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
— Howard Hughes
Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.
— Halford Mackinder
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
