Quotes About Compromise

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.

We've seen, in Washington, both sides say they don't want to give up much of anything.

It's not going to be easy to create a world where both sides prefer peace, but we have to try.

It's OK for two sides to disagree. It's perfectly fine. It's normal.

Contract things are kind of tough to come up with, especially with both sides and kind of how the economics and all those things work.

A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

The problem is that Abu Mazen signed an agreement with the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.

You wait all your life to be signed by a major label, and then when they sign you, they don't want you to do what you want to do.

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part of this criminal apparatus in Russia.

The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

The hack is like the politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders. It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from. I

Obedience to God's Word begins by being determined to make no compromise with His ways. It requires a clear understanding that God's rules and laws are for your benefit, and for you to do all you can to live by them.

We are faced with the need to communicate, compromise, submit to one another, and be unselfish. A tall order, to be sure. Either God has a tremendous sense of humor, or a desire to keep us continually growing. Probably both. God

we can't force our spouses to do what we want them to do

As the Democratic Party drifts more leftward, there is an urgent need for a center-right party to argue for a different vision and governing philosophy.

Haven't you ever heard of compromise?" "Oh sure," I said. "That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. I've done that lots of times. It sucks.

nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it

A veces los hombres somos necios y tomamos lo que no queremos porque pensamos que no podemos tener lo que deseamos.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all.

There was something strangely beautiful about this, the coming together of two ways of life that I'd thought irreconcilable: duty and longing