Quotes About Compromise

In a quarrel, leave room for reconciliation.

I find the easiest way to get what I want is to make him happy. Marriage is hard work and the woman does a lot of sacrificing, but if she does what he wants, he is happy. And when he's happy, things are better for everyone. How do you think I got the necklace? He gives me nice things when I do what he wants." To Sue, this sounded like a dog being rewarded for performing a trick.

Why aren't you in your room?" he asked. "We're married,

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Sometimes, but not often, I am thoroughly convinced that the decision I have made is the right one, even though it differs from the others, and I will exercise my authority to approve or reject a decision against their wishes. In most cases, though, if we can't agree on something, a better idea is to table the decision rather than to exercise the power.

Doesn't take much skill to stay married. Just some patience and the common sense to know when to shut up and listen.

Then don't give me a deadline. Let me do it in my own way." "As you have been until now, keeping every man at arm's length, scaring them away with your target shooting?" Gran shook her head. "You cannot fall in love if you do not let a man close. And you will not let a man close unless you have a reason. I know you. If I rescind that ultimatum, you will bury yourself on this estate and never come out.

You see, Jarret?" she said softly. "It can't work. We want different things. You want to follow the wind where it leads, and I want to dig my roots deep. You're a river, and I'm a tree. The tree can never follow the river, and the river can never stay with the tree.

Relationships! We can't live with them, we can't live without them.

Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice.

I have wife who understands, or even if she doesn't she at least pretends.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

She's against it on principle, and life isn't run on principles but by adjustments

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.

If you worked out enough, maybe the man would too. Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. We thought we could do better. Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better? Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always mean worse, for some.

We can't always do what we want," said Zilla gently. "Even you." "And sometimes we have to do what we hate," said Vera. "Even you.

She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.

The hair compromise he finally agreed to is a white strip on the left side – geriatric punk, he'd whispered to himself – with, recently, the addition of an arresting scarlet patch. The total image is that of an alarmed skunk trapped in the floodlights after an encounter with a ketchup bottle.

Messy love is better than none. I guess. I'm no authority on sane living.

I hate petit point. I want to make bread." "We can't always do what we want," said Zilla gently. "Even you." "And sometimes we have to do what we hate," said Vera. "Even you." "Don't let me, then!" I said. "You're being mean!" And I ran out of the kitchen.