Quotes About Compromise

You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.

I wish I could give you everything you want and still be me.

Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.

Det fria samhället bygger på att vi på så många områden som möjligt ersätter huggens och slagens logik med det frivilliga handslagets logik. Att vi inte förbjuder, tvingar och kommenderar, utan att vi frågar, erbjuder och förhandlar.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

You can't get what you want all the time in life.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

Like, in Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp is one big ambition machine. She'll stop at zero. Jane Eyre has temper tantrums, throws herself on the floor. Pip in Great Expectations is deluded and money hungry. All of them want a better life and go after it, and all of them are morally compromised. That makes them interesting.

He had acted wrongly, and was still being punished—but wrongly because he had tried to get the best of both worlds.

Another reason Westerners are tempted to compromise is because we tend to view the world dualistically. Things are true or false, right or wrong, good or bad. We have little patience for ambiguity or for the unsettling reality that values change over time.

He sent messengers ahead to meet Alexander and offered him half his kingdom and his daughter in marriage, if only he would agree not to fight. 'If I were Alexander, I'd take it,' said Alexander's friend, Parmenios. 'And so would I, if I were Parmenios,' was Alexander's reply.

He didn't care for Clive [anymore], but he could suffer from him.