Quotes About Compromise

Elle se sentait en même temps indignée contre tous ses voisins, et humiliée d'avoir cedé, souillée par les baisers de ce Prussien entre les bras duquel on l'avait hypocritement jetée.

Elle aussi l'avait trouvé gentil ; et c'est uniquement pour cela qu'elle s'était donnée, liée pour la vie, qu'elle avait renoncé à toute autre espérance, à tous les projets entrevus, à tout l'inconnu de demain. Elle était tombée dans le mariage, dans ce trou sans bord pour remonter dans cette misère, dans cette tristesse, dans ce désespoir, parceque, comme Rosalie, elle l'avait trouvé gentil!

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The American moron's mind simply does not run in that direction; he wants to keep his Ford, even at the cost of losing the Bill of Rights

Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Suffice it to say that the vile arts of the hussy prevailed over that noble and upright man—that she enticed him, by adroit appeals to his sympathy, into taking her upon automobile rides, into dining with her clandestinely in the private rooms of dubious hotels

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

A good marriage was full of moments of cats and dogs. It was the uneventful marriage that was headed toward disaster. In a word, the differences between the husband and the wife should only help stabilize their marriage.

In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.

Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." — Hannah Arendt

Just because the Jews had been used as a non-national element, they could be of value in war and peace only as long as during the war everybody tried consciously to keep the possibilities of peace intact, only as long as everybody's aim was a peace of compromise and the re-establishment of a modus vivendi. As soon as "victory or death" became a determining policy, and war actually aimed at the complete annihilation of the enemy, the Jews could no longer be of any use.

Relationships are never fifty-fifty. Sometimes they are sixty-forty, sometimes eighty-twenty. You'll be the eighty sometimes, you'll be the twenty others. The key is to accept and be okay with that.

I would rather French-kiss a live rodent than shake the man's hand, but in prison, you do what you have to.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

Politics is a lot tougher than physics.

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

I find it obvious that, in a first-past-the-post electoral system, we need to head towards the centre.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.