Quotes About Compromise

You have to work across the aisle. Americans have had enough of the gridlock in Washington.

If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.

We need not agree on everything, but we must find a way to handle our differences so that they do not become divisive.

Welcome to the real world of marriage, where hairs are always on the sink and little white spots cover the mirror, where arguments center on which way the toilet paper comes off and whether the lid should be up or down. It is a world where shoes do not walk to the closet and drawers do not close themselves, where coats do not like hangers and socks go AWOL during laundry. In this world, a look can hurt and a word can crush. Intimate lovers can become enemies, and marriage a battlefield.

Sometimes the decision to agree with the other person's idea will involve great sacrifice. However, love always involves some sacrifice.

We must first learn what is important to our spouse.

Fifth, agree to seek a resolution.

we must choose our battles carefully. Some things are not worth fighting over, and some things are clearly not our battles.

If, however, we make our needs and desires known in the form of a request, we are giving guidance, not ultimatums.

We know intellectually that we will eventually have differences. But we are certain that we will discuss those differences openly; one of us will always be willing to make concessions, and we will reach agreement.

What would be workable for you?" is a good place to begin. Now we are focusing on resolution rather than differences. Two adults looking for a solution are likely to find one. Father, this question—What would be workable for you?—is eye opening. How often I waste time trying to convince my spouse that my way is right. Please help me instead to join with him or her in looking for a solution that works for both of us. Thank you for making us both unique.

If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

He realized that he was not always right, was, indeed, often not right, and at the same time he found that others were not always wrong.

He didn't love her. They were together for the obvious and timeless reason: It was slightly less painful than being alone.

You must realize that these are abnormal times and there's no way that any of us can keep ourselves pure

Richard at once declared that we must be content with that and drop the subject. I agreed with Richard. All's well that ends well. What say you, O.G?

I'd sooner cut off my hand and shove flowers in the stump than use this miserable excuse for pottery, but my friend is deranged enough to think otherwise.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

When faced with too many alternatives and too much information, they satisfice (March and Simon 1958).

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

your uncle Howard is one of the most harmless of men—much nicer than most professional people. Of course he does dreadful things as a judge; but then if you take a man and pay him 5,000 pounds a year to be wicked, and praise him for it, and have policemen and courts and laws and juries to drive him into it so that he can't help doing it, what can you expect?

a woman, let her be as good as she may, has got to put up with the life her husband makes for her. Your mother has had to put up with a good deal because of me.