Quotes About Compromise

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

I'm not really crazy about all this tit-for-tat stuff. I'm always asked to be the one to first give up the tit.

I've noticed that women often have a desire to change men, even the ones they love." "I've noticed that, too." Dougal frowned. "Which is odd, when you think about it. Because if you didn't like the way a man is, why would you attach yourself to him to begin with?

Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones.

Why should I let you take it?" "Because you owe me." "Why do I owe you?" "Because I put up with you.

He said love is the willingness to put the happiness and evolution of the person you love before your own. Even if it means giving them up.

Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later." ~Chloe to Dageus.

Once you start splitting hairs, trying to convince yourself some things are more acceptable to destroy, you've already lost the most important war.

Everything is negotiable if the correct pressure is applied.

It was possible to love someone who was completely wrong for you. You could waste your entire life loving that person, doing enormous damage to each other and the world around you.

Gibraltar hadn't thought that even his cosseted Jillian could pout, sulk, and be nasty for three solid weeks. She could.

She asked me to call her bitch downstairs when we were doing shots at the bar. Said it turned her on. Later, with a laugh, she switched it to princess. Now she wants mistress. High maintenance. Some women are worth it.

I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.

Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid.

Love is all about sacrifices—big and small ones. It's only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that you know what true love really is." The whirring fan spun above them,

En kärlek med villkor är ju handel.

There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

if you're a free spender, marry somebody who understands that. If you're frugal, you need to marry somebody who understands that, because money is one of the stumbling blocks in marriages. And fortunately we have the same values on most things.

A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little.

Life is always going to get in the way of our best intentions and most well-made plans.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.