Quotes About Compromise

What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

I understood that instead of being a treat for me, the Certs had been a mild compromise for him. By letting me believe they were a special something, just for me, he didn't have to actually think of a special something for me.

We can continue to live exactly as we do right now, in a heavy lidded state of love and unspeakable compromise. Isn't that what people do? Every day? Don't they ache but rename it tired?

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

You can't have your cake and let your neighbour eat it too.

Evsei Slonim would have seen himself as a member of the intelligentsia, a classless class whose features Nabokov described asthe spirit of self-sacrifice, intense participation in political causes or political thought, intense sympathy for the underdog of any nationality, fanatical integrity, tragic inability to sink to compromise, true spirit of international responsibility.

My mom chooses her battles carefully, and I can tell you one thing about my family. When my mom does say something, she always gets her way.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

the conflicts made him an indecisive mediator - a man, as someone had once observed, who couldn't keep his feet out of the shit on either side because he couldn't get the fencepost out of his ass.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Sometimes political correctness exists more in the furious minds of its enemies than in reality, which gets n with compromise and common sense without too much hysteria.

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, Whatever you think is best, dear. Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.

In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.