Quotes About Compromise

Yasser Arafat

Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it. Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

That's all this job is, Daine, she explained. Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

They had to work at it, but they found their common ground. Ultimately, though, their differences returned, and she wondered how deeply they ran. How could she continue to overlook them, when they loomed so large? Jessica

Everything each of us does affects the others. None of us lives in a vacuum. We're simply children on a quest to gain the highest forms of wisdom without being compromised in the process. But when one is compromised, the others are compromised. You see that, don't you?

How could he doubt such a lovely daughter who had agreed with him at each turn, though he'd had to break three of her fingers to convince her that he was right?

At the rectory, she debated acknowledging she was back on the job by wearing clericals, versus pissing the new deacon off by meeting her in her civvies. She compromised by wearing a black blouse, dog collar, and subdued black cardigan over a pair of old undress-green fatigues. "Interesting look," Lois said when Clare checked in for a report on the past week. "It's a clerical mullet," Clare said. "Business on the top, party on the bottom.

Healthy adult relationships are reciprocal, which means that there's a "give-and-take" quality to them. Sometimes one person's needs take precedence; sometimes the other person's needs take precedence. And often, compromise is required to achieve a "win-win" solution so that both people's needs are met.

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Cuando Malin volvía, él trataba de convencerla de salir, de ir al cine, de ir a caminar por el barrio y sentarse en un café a hablar de libros y de poesía, pero ella llegaba exhausta y nada más quería bañarse, comer algo ligero, leer y dormir. Se comenzaron a resentir mutuamente. Para

War is an admission of failure

He worked for Rockefeller?" Oppenheimer said, puffing on his pipe. And then lowering his voice, he quipped, "I, too, have taken money for doing harm.

denial of the views and ideas of other people, cannot be the basis of any kind of agreement.

However confident Americans might be that their views and ideas will prevail, the absolute "denial of the views and ideas of other people, cannot be the basis of any kind of agreement.

You think marriage is in the large things, Mrs. Rahimi had once said. It's in the small things. Can you survive the arguments about housework, can you learn to live with each other's different TV viewing habits.

Some irritations dissipate in a marriage, some accumulate

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Despite explaining that it's just a mechanical process, my husband, Sanjay, would initially ask whether an intimate shot was very necessary. I invited him over to the sets when I shot those scenes, but he never came over. I admit that there have been fights over this issue too.

Social changes always involve trade-offs.