Quotes About Compromise

One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

I'm a dude, obviously, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't do laundry until I want to. But if I live with a girl, you have to do it when she wants to or when we want to, which sucks.

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

Symbolic representation makes it possible for instinctual impulses to find disguised, socially acceptable forms of gratification, not as satisfying as direct physical pleasure, but a reasonable compromise with necessary social constraints. Thus

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

just take the deal and get on

The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.

The norm of bipartisan agreement has been shattered forever and, once shattered, it cannot be put back together.

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

Everyone has their own idea of the perfect partner, but they usually do not consider what it is they have to offer one.

Is it always "or"? Is it never "and"?

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways, The smooth appeasing compromises of time.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it ' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Fear makes us do things we might never agree to do, doesn't it, my dear?

By now a new idea had been identified by both American and Pakistani negotiators, one that might save face. The United States could pay "blood money" to the families of Davis's two victims and the families could choose to forgive him.