Quotes About Compromise

My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

I wouldn't trust a man and woman who never had their fights.

Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.

True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

I'm willing to negotiate on undergarments.

When you nag, you become the problem, an he deals with it by turning you out, but when you dont nag, he deals with the problem.

If she has six good points and you have one semigood little point, place all of the emphasis on your one semigood little point.

When you nag, you become the problem, and he deals with it by tuning you out. But when you don't nag, he deals with the problem.

Don't plan all of your weekends together so he has to ask permission to go fishing. Let him catch a couple of fish. Otherwise, he'll start to break dates. Why? Because he's acting like a rebellious teenager who's been given a curfew by mama. He'll do it deliberately so you don't get used to dictating how his time is spent.

Whenever a woman requires too many things from a man, he'll resent it. Let him give

She "promises to love, honor, and appear to be agreeable some of the time.

Online, we easily find "company" but are exhausted by the pressures of performance. We enjoy continual connection but rarely have each other's full attention. We can have instant audiences but flatten out what we say to each other in new reductive genres of abbreviation. We like it that the Web "knows" us, but this is only possible because we compromise our privacy, leaving electronic bread crumbs that can be easily exploited, both politically and commercially.

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

Because there is a problem that exists, the doors for communication between the two nations should not be closed. Japan always keeps our door for communication open. I'd like China to take the same attitude.

Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.

each had so much to say that neither was willing to expend the effort, and so said nothing.

Or maybe, as is usually the case with spans of distance and time, each had so much to say that neither was willing to expend the effort, and so said nothing.