Quotes About Compromise

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

What love will make you do All the things that we accept Be the things that we regret

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.

My girlfriend said: 'If you loved me you wouldn't drink so much', I said: 'If I didn't drink so much I probably wouldn't love you'.

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

There is no love without sacrifices.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

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

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

A compromise is done willingly and out of love. You don't go away thinking, "I betrayed myself."

What's love got to do with it?

Love's never a fair trade.

You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

And 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.

You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

that something better might be attained in the future by giving up something of value in the present.

Collect a hundred, or a thousand, of those, and your life is miserable and your marriage doomed. Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight. Unpleasant as that might be in the moment, it is one less straw on the camel's back.

to seek peace—you have to decide that you want the answer, more than you want to be right. That's the way out of the prison of your stubborn preconceptions. That's the prerequisite for negotiation.

No matter how good your intentions, or how sweet and tolerant your temperament, you will not maintain good relations with someone you fight

you must decide whether you want to be right or you want to have peace.216 You must decide whether to insist upon the absolute correctness of your view, or to listen and negotiate.