Quotes About Concession

We want peace, but not at any price.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

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.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

Finally, the simplest, easiest Everybody Sort of Wins: Tom now sleeps in on Saturdays, and I sleep in on Sundays. Everybody sort of nearly wins! For the most part!

Their resistance was made to concession; their revolt was from protection; their blow was aimed at a hand holding out graces, favours, and immunities.

None of the three, it is true, had stored much hope in Padre Cristoforo's endeavor, since for a powerful man to desist from an act of aggression without being forced to, as a mere concession to unarmed prayers, was not only rare but unheard of.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

Politics is compromise.

Chamberlain moved again to concession. "Appeasement" was at that time a popular and not a pejorative word.

Im Kampf um den Handtaschenriemen gegen die Türklinke opfere lieber die Handtasche, als der Türklinke das Gefühl zu geben, sie hätte gewonnen.

La mejor manera de explotar el deseo de ganar puntos de tu contrincante es permitir que los gane. Concédele puntos que no perjudiquen tu objetivo de forma irreparable.

How do you negotiate once you've offered everything?

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, 'Women's rights are human rights,' and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the '18 million cracks' in the glass ceiling.

I believe in diplomacy; I don't believe in talking to... that talking to Iran somehow constitutes a concession or a favour.

Talking and diplomacy is often seen as a concession in America, in a way that it is not in other places.

What are you going to name him?" I asked her. Adrian followed my lead. "Adrian Sinclair has a nice ring to it," he said. Olive's eyes, full of fear, watched the window and door, but her lips curled into another smile at the joke. "Declan." "Nice Irish name," I said. "It would work," Adrian conceded. "Declan Adrian Sinclair." "Declan Neil," she corrected.

Listening is a fundamental way to invite a child into the community. It is commonly said that listening is the cheapest concession you can make. In schools, adults listen, but mostly for the answers to our academic questions. We listen to determine what is right and wrong. We listen for opportunities to lecture.

Getting a Dog: She won this one easily, as I've already mentioned; I thought my graceful surrender would win me a concession or two down the line. i was wrong. Renee saw the dog not as a personal victory for her, but a huge favor she was doing me by teaching me the joys of being pissed on by an animal. This is just one of the adorable quirks of the dog, best friend God ever gave humanity in this crazy little world.

Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.