Quotes About Compromise

If you cant go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

Again, as young males have always been the most aggressive element in society whereas older men were traditionally associated with a counsel of moderation and compromise, it has been suggested that the decline in young men's relative numbers may contribute to the pacificity of developed societies while explaining the greater belligerency of developing ones, particularly those of Islam.

If there's one thing I've learned it's what a woman can do to a man's common sense.

He'd never been able to say no to her – even when he should have known that a girl like her wanted something better than a cowboy like him.

His uncle called him every day, demanding he get into the house, no matter what he had to do. "You don't understand," he'd tried to tell Bernie. "There's this old woman who lives next door –

Very few negotiations are begun and concluded in the same sitting. It's really rare. In fact, If you sit down and actually complete your negotiation in one sitting, you left stuff on the table.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

You can compromise on anything else in your life but love. It's the one time where under no circumstances should you let yourself have second rate.

Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I want very much to see some sort of compromise reached in the area of immigration... so that we could move on to other issues.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

I'll be reaching across the aisle to find opportunities to work with Democrats on the issues that desperately need to be addressed.

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

When I'm arguing, I'm competing. I'm trying to win a game. And if that's what's called for, it's just a reaction.

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.