Quotes About Compromise

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity. Compromise is cheap.

We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7

It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride!

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?

If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you"re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn"t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

He had a dozen arguments with her before breakfast, and a thousand passionate reconciliations before he went to sleep.

I thought of Will telling me if I didn't stop bloody whistling he'd be forced to run me over.

nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

have given up my best years and watched my friends freeze, drown and burn. I have given up my innocence, my friends their lives, so that I might grieve for what I was never sure I even wanted. At least, until it was too late.

Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

You can't make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can't change people's minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

We're all stuck here for a while, so let's try to work it out.

Manichaeism, a religion that spread throughout the Middle East and influenced Western thinking. If you think about politics in a Manichaean way, then compromise is a sin.

Mani's preaching developed into Manichaeism, a religion that spread throughout the Middle East and influenced Western thinking. If you think about politics in a Manichaean way, then compromise is a sin. God and the devil don't issue many bipartisan proclamations, and neither should you.

Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.