Quotes About Compromise

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong. It's the other way around; it will lead to more wars.

Wars are not a choice we make for no reason.

Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make compromises - even though it did not lose any wars.

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

Many times, disagreements between the two political parties in Washington get all the headlines. What's not reported is the fact that Republicans and Democrats agree on where we want to go, but we disagree on how we're going to get there.

We would be going to war for peace.

Can you not see that it's no longer a question of dragon versus human? The division now is between those who think this peace is worth preserving and those who would keep us at war until one side or the other is destroyed.

Maybe we can't have everything we want in this relationship, Susanna." He bent his lips to her ears and whispered, "But we have this ball and tonight, you are my queen.

Can't always have life the way we want it. But there's always pizza.

Charlotte." No, no, no. "Dixie, wait, listen to me—

Can I buy you a drink?" was most often accompanied by "I'm a banker" or "I'm just here on business." The latter was code for "I've got a wife at home but we can make some sort of arrangement.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos.

If you stayed there, sooner or later you were going to be visited at night by Russ, who was old, and muscular, and mean. The girls complained about being raped by him as if it were a form of strictness, or rent. They were willing to endure it because they didn't have other options. The rest of us did nothing about it because Russ bought us liquor and what were we to do, call the police? One of them was known for taking girls out to Point Lobos instead of to the police station.

Sometimes what other people want is wantable, briefly, before dissolving in the face of your own wants.

But once you start giving ground, it's hell to get it back.

We have all been hacked, the only question is whether you know it or you don't'.

Sometimes it is better to find the spot where we agree and build a relationship that will be the best medium for working through our difficulties.

Ambedkar viewed the pact as a compromise benefiting everyone, including the Dalits, an inference confirmed by the fact that only two years after writing his 1945 text Ambedkar began the process of steering the passage of a Constitution that incorporated the pact.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. —CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy.