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Quotes About Compromise

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
~ Melissa Bank
Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.
~ Cecelia Ahern
All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.
~ Alice Cooper
We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.
~ Barry Lyga
I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.
~ Eric Close
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I love you,too, Garrett. But sometimes love isn't enough.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Love is the selfishness of two persons.
~ Antoine de la Sale
There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
~ Flora Lewis
If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean that your families are going to fall in love with each other.
~ Laz Alonso
Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it.
~ Ronnie Day
...love him enough to give him this, even if it's at the price of your pride." (Annette to Cat)
~ Jeaniene Frost
I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
~ John Waters
...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
One cannot always marry the person one loves.
~ Kate Mosse
We can't always do what we want in life, answered her father, so we do the best we can.
~ Beverly Cleary
Not until 1902, at an early meeting of the International Congress of Zoology, did naturalists begin at last to show a spirit of compromise and adopt a universal code. Taxonomy
~ Bill Bryson
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
~ Bill Watterson
Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
~ Bill Watterson
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!
~ Bill Watterson
Being unable to overcome death, misery, and uncertainty, men have agreed, in order to be happy, not to think about them.
~ Blaise Pascal
why anyone would trade Rachel for the secretary, but he'd watched a few of those late night Showtime flicks and men could be incredibly stupid when their genitals were involved.
~ Bob Mayer