Quotes About Compromise

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

But on mundane matters they rubbed one another like whetstones, without polishing off their sharp edges.

Oh God." I told you not to look." No, you didn't. You said 'in a minute.' That's not the same thing at all." It is to me." She swallowed back her gorge. Her throat was tight in the aftermath. "I'm adding communication issues to the stuff we need to work on." I communicate just fine. The way I see it, your listening is off.

I knew that look, that very slight hitch in his eyebrow that said he knew I was going to do what I wanted anyway, and he wasn't going to waste his breath on me. I did not care for that look, but it was better than another quarrel.

I want sex. What do you want?" He cursed under his breath. "We are coming at this from a different place." "As long as we're coming, it doesn't matter.

When I think about moving forward, in mutual recognition, towards resolution, I think about the word agreement. Not that we would hold the same views, but rather that we would communicate enough to agree on what each of our different views actually are.

Annihilation is a bad strategy, it gives the other nothing to lose.

Escalation is the key consequence of refusing to problem-solve or negotiate, and it demands our attention as a central obstacle to peace and justice.

Your life got busy with work and you got used to pulling away, and I filled my life up with the children and got used to biting my tongue. That's how we derailed.

Maybe relationships shouldn't be such hard work...

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.

A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises—which then become the start for the continuation of conflict, compromise, and on ad infinitum.

Those who, for whatever combination of reasons, encourage the opposite of reformation, become the unwitting allies of the far political right. Parts of the far left have gone so far in the political circle that they are now all but indistinguishable from the extreme right.

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

Know what the other guy values before you try to convince him of something.

If you make it clear that you are dead serious and will fight to the end about a particular issue, you force more possibilities to arise.

On joining the aquarium community we all agreed to put aside our carnivorous ways to live off Professor Brown's fish food. Every one of us agreed! If we start to eat each other, what kind of life would that be?

Love's the only game I know where two can play and, still, both can lose

Have you considered extreme, desperate measures like talking to her again?" "Yeah, but, well..." "You've yeah-but your way to this point," said Jean. "You're going to yeah-but this mess until it's time to go home, and I don't doubt you'll yeah-but her out of your life. Quit circling at a distance. Go talk to her, for Preva's sake.

When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this land, and neither did you.

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.