Quotes About Compromise

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

Some people think we can have everything we want without making any difficult decisions. They have forgotten what it takes to win. It is fantasy politics.

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

It's very common business for players and management to go back and forth and try to find common ground.

Don't argue. We ain't doing that. What you going back and forth with somebody over anything for?

I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

I think when you work enough on your doing freelance stuff on other films, you start to feel what it feels like to work with people who are not totally on the same page as you.

I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

Between friends, there is room for disagreement.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Washington can be a frustrating place.

If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.

I have ruled out Coalitions with Brexiteers because it's so fundamentally opposed to our values.

Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst.

It won't be enough for either of us. But it will be better than nothing.

Ferdinando [King of Naples] resolv'd, in good Earnest, to try how to compromise the Affair of the Castles; being persuaded, that that when this Obstacle was remov'd, Matters would easily return into the fame peaceable Channel. But by removing the Causes, the Effects that sprung from them are not always remov'd. For, as it frequently happens, that Resolutions taken out of Fear seldom appear sufficient to the Fearful.

It seems we will be offered a choice between dishonor and war. I suspect we shall take dishonor—and get war afterward, as a kind of dessert." Roosevelt

Such examples should alert one to the fact that falling in love and staying in love may be two rather different processes. The first is based mainly on immediate attraction, while the second will require negotiation, compromise, and a far better understanding of both oneself and one's partner. Falling in love is grand; staying in love is hard work.

The hair-splitters up there will welcome any point

America is infatuated with this false understanding of tolerance. To be truly tolerant is not to give every idea equal standing or to compromise the truth in the interest of keeping the peace and making everyone happy.