Quotes About Compromise

it is far better to marry the right person at the wrong time than the wrong person at the right time.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

sometimes in life you have to do things your not proud of!

He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the whole hive collapses.

This is at the heart of the professional pilot's eternal conflict," writes Wilkinson in a comment to the November Oscar case. "Into one ear the airlines lecture, "Never break regulations. Never take a chance. Never ignore written procedures. Never compromise safety." Yet in the other they whisper, "Don't cost us time. Don't waste our money. Get your passengers to their destination—don't find reasons why you can't.

People have long been willing to trade freedoms for economic prosperity, which is where a compelling link to the promises (though not generally delivered realities) of neoliberalism becomes visible.

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

John Cassavetes once gave me some advice that has proved invaluable... He said, 'We're good friends, but never, ever do an artistic favor for a friend. Loan friends money, be there for them in every other way, but don't do them any artistic favors, because you've got to have one area of your life where there's no room for compromise.

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

War is the remedy for peace.

We all know the kinds of short-term states we can enter that can compromise our empathy. These include being drunk, tired, impatient, or stressed, during which we might say or do the wrong thing to someone else and later regret it. The feeling of regret is a sign of our empathy circuit coming back on, but the fact that we say or do the wrong thing is nevertheless—at that moment—a fluctuation in our empathy circuit.

The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world's malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there's nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you've nothing better to do.

Sometimes you can't save everyone. Sometimes all you can do... is kill a whole bunch of people.

When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.

I apply not my sword when my lash suffices nor my lash when my tongue suffices. And even if but one hair is binding me to my fellow men, I don't let it break. When they pull, I loosen, if they loosen I pull.

But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along.

A relationship that applies the law of push and pull is the one that most survive.

Most relationships fail not because of fights, but because of egos.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.