Quotes About Compromise

suppose it's not a compromise if only one of you considers

So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.

I suppose it's not a compromise if only one of you considers it such, but that was what our compromises tended to look like.

There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn't ever complain.

The moral to the story being: Mr. Binks was a cheating dickweasel, but, you know, marriage is compromise.

No relationship is perfect, they say—they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation—yes, honey, okay, honey—is the same as concord.

you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movie. It's some weird compulsion.

Aren't the trunks stupid?" she whispered. "He says it gives the place a little authenticity. He didn't like the renovation." So the house had been a compromise: The husband wanted vintage, Susan wanted new, so they thought this outside/inside split might settle things. But the Burkes ended up more resentful than satisfied. Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.

People have to do awful things for the money.

I'll take those for my room, Momma. They look fine to me." "They're not." "I don't mind." "Camille, I was just looking at them, and they're not good blooms." She dropped the pliers to the ground, began tugging at a stem. "But they're fine for me. For my room." "Oh, now look what you've done. I'm bleeding.

Sensmoralen i historien var: Mr Binks var ett otroget svin som stoppade kuken båda här och där, men du förstår, äktenskapet är en kompromiss.

Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The

He also agrees to raise the seat four inches so I'll be able to see the road in front of me.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?

Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.

It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less - even a vague pathetic facsimile of less - than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get and please don't settle for less.

The only reason people compromise themselves is because they don't feel strongly enough about themselves and are looking for another person to fix it for them, either sexually or emotionally. That's why it is imperative that you get to a place where you like yourself, even if just for the added bonus of weeding out the creeps.

His urbane hauteur had given way to a genuinely angry expression. Evidently he didn't appreciate having his well-laid plans compromised by an unexpected influx of walking corpses. To be fair, who did?

carefully negotiated his way

A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life

It is the triumph of reason to get on well with those who possess none

is possible to do the wrong thing for the right reasons.

You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't.