Quotes About Compromise

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.

The lesser evil is also evil.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

lo mejor es enemigo de lo bueno.

Believe me, when a woman loves a man, you do not win her heart by crossing swords with him.

If I were sole owner we'd shake hands on it now, my dear Dantes, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—'He who has a partner has a master.

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it.

In politica, mio caro, lo sapete quanto me, non ci sono uomini ma idee; non sentimenti ma interessi; in politica non si uccide un uomo: si elimina un ostacolo, ecco tutto.

One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic.

One of the most familiar weaknesses of the human mind is the wish to reconcile contrary principles and buy peace at the expense of logic.

Parties are a necessary evil in free governments.

If kings and peoples had only had their true interests in view ever since the beginning of the world, the name of war would scarcely be known among mankind.

It was necessary for Yeovil to re-establish control or effect a compromise.

In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission...was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose. I saw their point at once.

Mi amor por el cine es más grande que mi moral.

For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

It was all he could do. To make her see what she was doing, what she was ending, and to punish her if she did so. Nobody would blame him. There might be finagling, there might be bargaining, there would certainly be humbling of herself, but there it was, like a round cold stone in her gullet, like a cannonball. And it would remain there unless she changed her mind entirely. The children stay

People doing something that seems to them natural and necessary. At least, one of them is doing what seems natural and necessary, and the other believes that the important thing is for that person to be free, to go ahead. They understand that other people might not think so. They do not care.

Her father was outraged. "Now you sell your stories, how soon before you will sell yourself?

Your anxiety attach in the church sounds like a compromise formation. A what? Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocense. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. So the compromise is anxiety.

Sometimes there is no good choice. Just the choice that has to be made.