Quotes About Compromise

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

If you really want me to give up my car or my air conditioner, you'd better prove to me first that the earth would otherwise be uninhabitable, Dr. Lave says. Me is you, I presume, whereas you refers to them. You as in me—that is, me, me, me—certainly strike a hard bargain. Uninhabitable the world has to get before you rein in your requirements

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

Why be the other half of disagreement?

No todos los problemas se resuelven hablando.

La abjuración obligada de Galileo es una prueba de que el disimulo era la única salida.

but Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks—most

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

Peter said, his voice as dry as burnt toast. "Can we leave?"  Of course they couldn't leave. Not before she'd crossed the room, planted herself in front

She expects you to keep your eyes still while you say to the conductor, "Of course, I'd be glad to, but I especially wanted to sit by the window. Would you be good enough to find me another window seat? And then we could change.

Nothing is as inimical to passion as the slow, sensible weighing of practicalities.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Lawyers are always asking me if I will cut some slack for their clients. My standard answer is this is not Let's Make A Deal.

The wall of it rose between them, higher than any she could raise with power. Too high by far to leap, too sheer to scale. But a gate—that, God willing, they could build. If she could learn to trust him again. If he could learn to rule his temper.

One acts with dignity," he said, "as much as one may. One compromises only as much as one must, and still remain oneself. And one keeps one's pride, even if one must keep it in secret, where only God can see.

Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug?

Sein halbes Leben hatte Gerhard an dem Widerspruch zwischen Denken und Handeln gelitten. Er hatte sich als Intellektueller gefühlt und versucht, darin eine Auszeichnung zu sehen, die für andauerndes Scheitern entschädigte. Insgeheim war ihm schon lange klar gewesen, dass der Satz "Der Klügere gibt nach" eine Falle darstellte und dass es sich beim Zusatz "bis er der Dumme ist" nicht um einen Witz, sondern um eine logische Konsequenz handelte.

Es gibt immer eine Lösung, die alle glücklich macht. Die muss gefunden werden. Nicht aus Menschenliebe, sondern aus Vernunft. Größtmögliche Zufriedenheit bringt den größtmöglichen Nutzen. Auch wenn manche Leute zur Zufriedenheit gezwungen werden müssen.

A veces la conciencia va por un lado y la conveniencia por otro.

I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar.

Neither one of you is going to kill, maim, attack, or even hug the other for at least thirty minutes.

She was married now, and suddenly she understood what it was her mother had been trying so hard to tell her on her wedding night. Marriage was about compromise, and she and Phillip were very different people. They might be perfect for one another, but that didn't mean they were the same. And if she wanted him to change some of his ways for her, well then, she was going to have to do the same for him.

This was different. He didn't want a woman. He wanted her. And he supposed that if he had to spend the afternoon being strange, sad, and disfigured just to be in her company, it would be well worth it. Then he remembered the wart. He turned to Miss Wynter and said firmly, "I am not getting a wart." Really, a man had to draw the line somewhere.