Quotes About Compromise

As part of the divorce agreement that ran into crores, Kavita requested I stay away from our baby and that when needed my daughter would know where to find me.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

I'm not married to a 45-cent gas tax.

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

The best thing for the American public is that we do our job. That Washington changes. That the Senate and the House get together and fix their differences and find common ground.

I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

Imagine if you're playing at home and your girlfriend is badgering you all the time not to play. Wouldn't it be great to have a game you could play with her? Because then you can carry on playing the game and not get beaten up for it.

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you're giving up - look over your shoulder and look at what falls away.

It's true that I have sacrificed certain jobs, and it's been a matter of fitting my career into the Globe rather than the other way around.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

If you think it's worth selling yourself out, go for it. But I'm not selling myself out so I can make a little more money. I'm not selling my character out for that.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

When you are close allies and good friends, like Denmark and the U.S. are, there should also be room for disagreements along the way.

Will Hurd and I are very good friends. But we represent, as Republicans, very different constituencies. And so, not withstanding the fact that he and I are personally very good friends... we both realize that to represent our constituencies well, we're not going to be on the same side of certain issues. And that's okay.

I know that some of the ideas that I have are not always going to be seen as a good idea by everybody but, that's just life. We learn at some point that you don't always get your way.

I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.