Quotes About Compromise

But I understood, now, her dilemma. I wanted what she had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.

In a burst of hideous insight, DeDe realized the depth of her commitment to this marriage. She had just traded adultery for a cheeseburger and an order of french fries.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior

Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.

You cannot reason with a rifle bullet fired from across the battlefield. You cannot negotiate with an artillery shell lobbed from over the horizon. You cannot compromise with a nuclear warhead screaming in from half a world away. The only answer to the gun, the only defense for the gun, has been more guns.

There was the airfield that had a railway line crossing the main runway, and operated through a kind of nonaggression pact between the Flying Control Tower and the nearest stationmaster. When a train was scheduled to go through, no aircraft were allowed to interfere, and vice versa.

They want the shield, but they don't like having to pay for it—

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual.

I was forced to agree.

We can accommodate Mr. Delgado as well. (LaCrosse) 'He'd agreed with polite grace, but he wasn't particularly happy. Someone had him by the short hairs and was braiding them.' (Carlos)

spending so much time with people who are willing to lie, steal, or worse in order to get what they want that I start accepting that as the normal course of events.

Sie schamloser Graubart«, sagte Luke. »Da opfern Sie mich für eine Tasse Kaffee!

You know what, Mendl? Listen to your wife, tell Odessa where it can go, and come home to Kasrilevke.

Visul este realizarea mascata a unei dorinte refulate. Este construit ca un simptom nevrotic, este o formatie de compromis intre necesitatea unei aspiratii instinctive refulate si rezistenta unei puteri cenzurate in eu. In virtutea unei origini asemanatoare el este la fel de incomprehensibil ca si simptomul si necesita, ca si acesta, o interpretare.

Lo mejor es siempre enemigo de lo bueno

So now you know, Kristin, that I have compromised much, both my land and my honor. You would certainly be much better served if you stayed with Simon Andressøn." Kristin put her arms around his neck. "We will stand by what we swore to each other last night, Erlend—if you feel as I do.

all success cloaks a surrender

When a country has political parties, sooner or later it becomes impossible to intervene effectively in public affairs without joining a party and playing the game.

There had been occasions when David could have seized position and power by means that would have compromised his commitment to the Lord.

When Myra appeared she said at once, Now, we want you boys to go on playing around just as if we weren't here. The first evening, he stayed out for poker with the guides, and she said in placid merriment, My! You're a regular bad one! The second evening, she groaned sleepily, Good heavens, are you going to be out every single night? The third evening, he didn't play poker.

Evidência circunstancial é uma coisa ilusória - respondeu Holmes de modo pensativo; - pode demonstrar claramente determinado pormenor, mas se você alterar o seu ponto de vista, por pouco que seja, poderá notar que a evidência aponta de modo comprometedor noutra direcção completamente oposta.

I try to pay for lunch, but Sam point-blank refuses, so we compromise on going Dutch.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.