Quotes About Compromise

I don't want you to feel grateful that I married you," he said. "But I do," she admitted. "Fine, then. Feel grateful." She drew back. "What?" "If you want to feel grateful, then feel grateful." She blinked. This was not what she'd expected him to say. Then he took her hand and raised it to his lips. "But I get to feel grateful too.

You'll find marriage a lot easier if you simply allow it to be.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.

I don't know what kept us together. Initially, both of us were hotheaded, so we would end up fighting a lot. But there was a lot of love and respect, too, I guess. I believe that's the key to a successful marriage.

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

I didn't want to be captain, I wanted to have more free time. I didn't want that added pressure at that particular time, but they actually insist, insist, insist, so I said OK. So I thought, just get on with it.

If you trust your instincts and it doesn't turn out right, OK. But if you compromise and defer to what somebody else is telling you and it doesn't work out, that feeling gnaws at me.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Skincare is integral to women's daily routine. They shouldn't have to compromise on what they use or the difference they see just because of the price.

Integration is a give and take.

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upon and things that you will not. And you don't want to let the things you don't mean that you don't have any interface.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Youth leaders, are you holding aloft our standards, or have you compromised them for the lowest common denominator in order to appease the deceived or vile within the Church? Are the dances and music in your cultural halls virtuous, lovely, praiseworthy, and of good report (Articles of Faith 13), or do they represent a modern Sodom with short skirts, loud beat, strobe lights, and darkness?

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

You tell me where you sleep during the day and I'll tell you what I am. Otherwise, we can agree to do business. Or I can leave.