Quotes About Compromise

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you--whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa)

A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.

This is the unspoken contract of a wife and her works. In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin—consideration for their feelings. And it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

The re-dipping of the dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.

Imogen," he said with forced patience, "you have plenty of occupations of your own, and you don't care to do the things that give a great deal of pleasure to me – when I have time to do them. You don't want to fish or shoot and you can't drive my car, which would be a help to me sometimes. Am I to understand that you object to my having the companionship of another woman who can do these things?

He says marriage is a continuous inevitable confrontation that can be resolved only through death.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

I only have one tip on how to stop an argument. Decide that "Feeling Good" is far more important than "Being Right!

Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.

I suspect I said nothing because I was doing what I have done most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves.

there is usually a course to be found somewhere between laid-back and laid out.

Socrates had just smiled and shook his head. To break the law, he told Crito, even a law that he knew was unjust, would be wrong. As he told his disciples many times, "one must not do wrong even when one is wronged."3 By doing wrong, a man did injury to his soul. Doing right, by contrast, makes his soul healthy and strong. A life of virtue is a life without compromise, Socrates believed, in which the goal is perfection according to an eternal standard.

The strain of making war would be nothing compared with the strain of making peace.

How does he learn to take that crucial step? Does he learn it the hard way, that if he is going to get along he has to go along, as Pufendorf suggested? Or is there a simpler, more uplifting way, by which we learn that virtue can be its own reward?

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

How much are the Lord's people losing today because of their acceptance of the world's favors! Unto how few can the Lord

Qué culpa tengo yo? ?Ninguna, niña, ninguna. Todos los novios se pelean. Y la mitad del gusto de ser novios está en pelear para contentarse y volver a pelear para volver a contentarse. [...] Los casados pelean menos. Los que pelean son los que se quieren.

We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.