Quotes About Compromise

When the church protects the powerful at the expense of the victim, we have compromised. And in the end, these compromises add up and convince the world that the church is not a community for the broken in search of healing but just another human institution that puts expediency above righteousness and justice.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

But what Ben was doing was different. He wasn't using the information against her. He was merely trying to keep the peace.

He is not a pleasant person,' I said. 'I don't know what we need him for.' 'You'll just have to learn to get along with him,' my mother replied. We were speaking of her husband, the man she had chosen to father her children.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.

Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.

He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.

pues sé que el subconsciente, además de desvirtuar nuestra infancia, tergiversar nuestros afectos, recordarnos lo que ansiamos olvidar, revelarnos nuestra abyecta condición y destrozarnos, en suma, la vida, cuando se le antoja y a modo de compensación, hace las veces de despertador.

Con este consuelo me metí en la cama y traté de dormirme repitiendo para mis adentros la hora en que quería despertarme, pues sé que el subconsciente, además de desvirtuar nuestra infancia, tergiversar nuestros afectos, recordarnos lo que ansiamos olvidar, revelarnos nuestra abyecta condición y destrozarnos, en suma, la vida, cuando se le antoja y a modo de compensación, hace las veces de despertador.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].

Programs for sale: fast, reliable, cheap - choose two.

A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.

Everyone has a price — mine is chocolate.

A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

My husband lets me have all the scrapbooking supplies I can hide.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.

There are many people in this world," Himerius says, "who do not care to what purposes their engines are put. So long as they are paid.

We are young, they sing, we are steadfast, we have never compromised, we have so many castles yet to storm.