Quotes About Compromise

and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.

I think she loves him, Lissa said. And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't, I replied

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said. He stuck out his hand. 'Come on, slugger. Walk with me. You know you want to.' And the thing was, despite everything I knew-that it was a mistake, that he was different from the others-I did. How he knew that, I had no idea. But I got up and did it anyway.

For a second none of us said anything, and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

I think she loves him, Lia said. And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't,I replied.

But you take what you get in this world. What else can you do?

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

In a marriage, it's not just whether you see the glass as half-full or half-empty. It's whether you see it those two ways, or any of the other endless fractions that are possible.

After Dickinson and Adams had it out over the Olive Branch Petition, Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that he and Dickinson "are not to be on speaking terms." How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheers me up? If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along?

If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along?

Experience is terribly important. You'll notice that the congressmen who want to hold up the government are all junior people and new to the game. And of course they will say, 'Oh, it's Washington cynicism, where they all compromise and work out backroom deals.' But that's actually how democracy works." Which

Oh, if only that was the last time in America that the extreme left and extreme right broke down and made a mess of things, leaving everyone in the center to suffer.

I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own.

You know you're in a bureaucracy when a hundred people who think 'A' get together and compromise on 'B.

Alek coughed politely, If I promise to avoid funny business, could you perhaps remove this knife from my throat?

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principal.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

Faced with a real fight, most animals will compromise. If the odds look bad, one or another will back off, or the fight will be discontinued by mutual consent. Humans are the only animals prepared to fight for a Pyrrhic victory.