Quotes About Compromise

Yes, good, kind Crake. I will stop telling this story if you sing. Because it makes me forget what I am telling.

Free love," Aunt Beatrice said scornfully. "It's never free. There's always a price.

But Molly didn't hate men. With men, Molly was a toad-kisser. she thought any toad could be turned into a prince if he was only kissed enough, by her. I was different. I knew a toad was a toad and would remain so. The thing was to find the most congenial among the toads and learn to appreciate their finer points. You had to develop an eye for warts. I called this compromise. Molly called it cynicism

That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland. This

T]he mothers who had sold their children felt empty and sad. They felt as if this act, done freely by themselves (no one had forced them, no one had threatened them) had not been performed willingly. They felt cheated as well, as if the price had been too low. Why hadn't they demanded more? And yet, the mothers told themselves, they'd had no choice.

Come, Scarlett, you are no child, no schoolgirl to put me off with foolish excuses about decency and so forth. Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.

Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way

If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door. I've never gotten so tired of any one word in my life as 'war,' unless it's 'secession.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.

Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.