Quotes About Compromise

The art of leadership is understanding what you can't compromise on.

The relentless pursuit of mass will make you boring, because mass means average, it means the center of the curve, it requires you to offend no one and satisfy everyone. It will lead to compromises and generalizations. Begin instead with the smallest viable market. What's the minimum number of people you would need to influence to make it worth the effort?

Lia, all that I am is what I do. I'm not meant for a tame sort of life, to dwell in bucolic splendor. I'm a city rat. I ache for it. I was made for it. And I wouldn't expect you to live as I do. I wouldn't want that for you. But its all I have to offer. Then--I accept. He brought a hand to his forehead and began to laugh. Its like being snared in a sugartrap. You wont listen.

Don't be difficult." That was the wrong thing to say.

You might as well face it. You're not going to be able to fight for the crown. You'll just have to grit your teeth and let us hand it over to you at the bargaining table.

in turn, had agreed to end the continuing

what Kamele's state of mind might be at this point in her relationship with Theo's father, he found himself reluctant to imagine. As she was a woman of great good sense, it was likely that she wanted to murder him—for which he would blame her not at all.

we have reduced our politics to black and white today: either for or against, nothing in between. Fifty Shades of Grey could never be the title of a book about Indian politics. This view of

Everyone wanted to call her sweetheart. But she only danced for me. That's how it was. She told me that every other step was just for me." "But that's only half of the dance," I said. "Yeah," my father said. "She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

I am always amused by those couples, lovers and spouses who perform and ask others to perform musical chairs whenever they, by random seat selection, are separated from each other. 'Can you switch seats with me, a woman asks me, 'so I can sit with my husband?' 'How dare you? How dare you ask me to change my life for you? How imperial. How colonial.' But, ah, here is the strange truth. Whenever I'm asked to trade seats for somebody else's love, I do. I always do.

When Indian women begin the search for an Indian man, they carry a huge list of qualifications. He has to have a job. He has to be kind, intelligent, and funny. He has to dance and sing. He should know how to iron his own clothes. Braids would be nice. But as the screwed-up Indian men stagger through their lives, Indian women are forced to amend their list of qualifications. Eventually, Indian men need only to have their own teeth to get snagged.

I declared a truce with her, at least within myself. Or maybe it's only a partial truce because a half-truce is really just a surrender, right?

I don't like your hair black. (Artemis) And I don't like your head attached to your shoulders. Guess we can't all have what we want, huh? (Acheron)

Come home with me, Acheron. I'll make it well worth your while. (Artemis) I have a headache. (Acheron) You've had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis) And you've had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron)

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn't end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

Works for me. For the ones we love, today we're allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

Let's find someplace where there aren't any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that's big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara) Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)

Do you own anything not pink? (Talon) I have a purple razor if you'd rather. (Sunshine) Please. (Talon) (She pulled out a darker pink one.) That's not purple. It's pink too. (Talon) Well, that's all I have unless you want my X-Acto blade. (Sunshine)

Perhaps I should sit up front with the driver and give you two enough space to beat the crap out of each other and settle this like grown adolescents. (Geary)

I'm staying here tonight. I can bunk on the floor. (Nathan) What if I say no? (Terri) I'll just break in after you go to sleep and still bunk on the floor. (Nathan)

I can't kill him. Celena You can do it baby. Rafeal You told me just last night that you wanted to choke the life out of me. Rafael That was for hogging the remote, and I wasn't serious. This is entirely different. Celena

Algunas veces, para conseguir lo que más queremos tenemos que renunciar a todo lo que creemos.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.