Quotes About Compromise

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

Every growth on this planet is at the cost of loss to some one. No one can deny it or proove it wrong.

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

group of people who had received the gospel but had then succumbed to a dilution of it so that they had departed from the basic Christian

The world's esteem is but a bribe, to buy their peace you sell your own.

From conversations with her friends, and from her own observations, Nancy knew that in every marriage (which after all boils down to two human beings living together) the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

There can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities of the invading horde of barbarians are an outrage to civilized mankind.

May our light shine in this world so that people see you in our sacrificial deeds of love and our compromising words of truth and give glory to your hallowed name, Father

A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.

I believe that the leaders of both political parties must try to work through our differences. And I believe we will be able to work through differences. I reassured the House and Senate leaders that I intend to work with the new Congress in a bipartisan way to address issues confronting this country.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

As its name implies, an even swap increases the value of an alternative in terms of one objective while decreasing its value by an equivalent amount in terms of another objective. In essence, the even swap method is a form of bartering—it forces you to think about the value of one objective in terms of another.

He had dreamed of a kind of integrity, of a kind of purity that was entire; he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality. He had conceived wisdom, and at the end of the long years he had found ignorance.

Stoner said to Finch, "I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax.

he said no more and hoped that his silence was less compromising than were his explanations.

he had found compromise and the assaulting diversion of triviality.

The religion which is current in our day is not of the pure and holy character that marked the Christian faith in the days of Christ and His apostles. It is only because of the spirit of compromise with sin, because the great truths of the word of God are so indifferently regarded, because there is so little vital godliness in the church, that Christianity is apparently so popular with the world.

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

The nature of the conflict permitted no middle ground, no compromise. And, since Lucifer would abide no delay, everyone had, by now, taken a side.

You have to pick your battles.