Quotes About Compromise

A democracy, indeed a culture, needs some sustaining common mythos. Yet, in a world where "truth" is a variable concept—where any belief can find its adherents—how can a consensus be formed? How can we arrive at the compromises that must underlie the workings of any successful society?

It was as if the world was presenting her with everything she wanted ... in all the wrong ways.

The pigs are confiscated until these two idiots work out heir marital problems". Gowan, Once Upon a Tower by Eloisa James

I know this is more than I need, and that I'm harming myself by having it, but I love the pleasure of this experience more than I love the pleasure of doing what pleases the Lord, so I'm just going to go ahead and satiate myself.

Compromise is the rudiment of every true love or relationship.

To be a true love is just a piece of piss i.e. it's so easy. Yes, it takes just, compromise and sacrifice. That's all.

True love ought to be give and take i.e. true love should be more of mutual concession/compromise. As a matter of fact, any love/relationship which is devoid of concession/compromise won't/can't last long.

What it takes to sustain every relationship is just compromise. That is to say, mutual concession. Yes! whoever that longs to be a true love must be a compromiser of his or her rights, interests, comfort and time. Besides that, every true love or lover is expected to share whatever he or she has with his or her spouse or partner. For, without compromise and sharing there can't be and there won't be any lasting relationship. -Emeasoba George

What it takes to sustain every relationship is just compromise. Yes! besides, whoever that longs to be a true love or leader must be a compromiser of his or her right, interest or comfort. -Emeasoba George

Un popor nu se poate compromite decât prin pruden??.

There exists an undeniable pleasure in knowing that everything you do has no real basis, that whether or not you commit an action is a matter of indifference. The fact nonetheless remains that in our daily gestures we compromise with Vacuity - that is, we turn and turn about, and occasionally, at the same time, we take the world as real and unreal. We mingle pure truth and sordid truths and this amalgam, the thinker's disgrace, is the living man's revenge.

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

When you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.

willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

So, I think the important thing is for us to work together. This shouldn't be a Democratic-Republican battle.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

I don't know. We're good together, but I have a lot of baggage." "Everyone does. It's nice when you can find someone willing to hold the bags.

But wasn't that what so many marriages were—finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring or irritating?