Quotes About Concession

Though he knew the Japanese would attack the Aleutians, he had refused to divert the bulk of his forces from the main event north of Midway. He had been content to concede the loss of the westernmost islands in the Aleutians archipelago, knowing they offered little value as military assets and could be recaptured in good time.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

For too long, for way too long the Republican party has just been the party of 'no' that has always conceded things. They have let God out of our schools, they have let socialism creep into our country.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

among men and not among angels; among men as intelligent, as determined and as independent as myself, who, not agreeing with me, do not choose to yield up their opinions to mine. Mutual concessions is our only resort, or mutual hostilities."*

Capitulation—

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

We make concessions. To get along with others. To make life go more smoothly. Even when we'd rather not." "But that's when life begins to lose some of its shine, don't you think?

I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero.

The best of a bad bargain.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

sometimes life requires compromises:

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. And I was ironing before that. I always had some kind of a job. And then I started modeling.

Evil is a terrorist, nursed on every spoonful of worry, encouraged with every glance of trepidation, fortified with every concession we make from our lives to acknowledge its threat

She smiled smugly. "We came to an agreement, the duck and I.

it's an even bargain -one in which we both lose.

Sure, you can raise your speed limit to 80, but we'll just hold on to that highway grant money next year. The states almost always cave; they can't afford not to.

He smiled—smiled like someone who, faced with the total inadequacy of the opposition, is prepared to drop the argument.