Quotes About Compromise

Warren had to decide whether to fight for his choice, and once he did, find a way to preserve his relationship while getting the desired result.

It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.

As soon as two or more people are together there is inevitably conflict, even if they like and respect each other. In order to resolve those conflicts there needs to be good will on both sides, and a willingness to give and take.

COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

When was it exactly that I became… this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find we are… this.

Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse' Joseph

One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are . . . this.

You could not even guess at the things that I have done. Awful, evil, obscene. The telling of them alone would make you puke. They nag at me from time to time, but I tell myself I had good reasons. The years pass, the unimaginable becomes everyday, the hideous becomes tedious, the unbearable becomes routine. I push it all into the dark corners of my mind, and it's incredible, the room back there. Amazing, what one can live with.

Drink and I have had some long and painful conversations and found we simply can't agree.' 'Drink and I can't agree either.' She shrugged and tossed it down herself. 'But we keep on having the argument.

who tries to please everyone pleases no one at all.

She would much rather have been held but, since they were who they were, she could be drunk instead.

Sooner or later, you have to stop expecting folk to bend around your plans and fit your plans to the folk you've got.

What use are straight answers in a crooked world?

We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are...this.

La forma de doblegar a una persona para que cumpla tu voluntad es ofrecerle lo que ella quiere, no obligarla a pronunciar un juramento.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Problem with trying to be rational all the time is the other fellow ain't always concerned with how logical your argument is.

Don't let people talk you into compromising, lowering your standards. They may not approve you, but God approves you. He's the one that matters.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.