Quotes About Compromise

Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.

But everything you do in life has a downside.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

You can have anything in life, but you can't have everything!

Sometimes in life if you wanna do something good, you gotta do something bad.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.

By virtue of being created by God, the world knows how to live and is under obligation to live that way, but it has declined. It has thus "profaned" the earth, made it something God no longer wishes to have anything to do with, something God could not continue to have anything to do with without compromising who he is.

Like dealing with Dad-all give and no take. (On negotiating with Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev)

We drew lots for the sleeping spaces," he pointed out, striving to keep a reasonable tone. Ulf shrugged petulantly. "Well, if I'd known I was going to be so close to the door, I would have drawn a different one." Hal gave up trying to be reasonable. He glared at Ulf. "Do you realize how abysmally stupid that statement is?" he demanded.

He wondered if he should mention the fact that Halt had been looking for her, then decided that, if he did so, his wife might hit him with the wooden serving ladle that lay close to her right hand. "Of course," he said, hiding his smile. He noted with relief that Sandra moved her hand away from the heavy ladle.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

To hold with the hare and run with the hound.

The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'35

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.