Quotes About Compromise

It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

There are differences of opinion that come up naturally within parties. And certainly Israel and Palestine is one that has demonstrated the differences of opinion.

The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.

Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.

What happens in Israel should be decided between Israel and the Palestinians.

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.

One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they're extremely good at finding compromise under pressure.

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

During the negotiation process, it's common for misconceptions to occur, since both parties assume what the other person is saying or thinking. This can lead to conflicts or disagreements.

None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.