Quotes About Compromise

If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.

I was going with someone for a few years, but we broke up. It was one of those things. He wanted to get married, and I didn't want him to.

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

Rely not upon conscience,' Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. 'It ever kneels to necessity.' 'And necessity is often a lie

Anyone could reason themselves into a corner, and so justify surrender.

For all the wrong reasons. But there's this – in this Hood-damned world, it's worth taking what you can get. Whatever you can get.

Bargain from strength or don't bargain at all.

To rule is to kneel before expediency.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

Democrats would back larger domestic spending cuts if Reagan would cut in half the third year of the income tax cut. "You can get me to crap a pineapple," Reagan replied, "but you can't get me to crap a cactus.

Can monks, even if they are free of desire, cultivate rituals designed to cater to laypersons' attachments and longings and still remain immune to corruption? Or, should questions raised about compromise in the name of a standard of incorruptible purity be set aside as the unrealistic expectations of an idealism that is not appropriate to observing Buddhism on the ground?

Justice doesn't always have clean hands, and we all have dark desires clawing at our wills.

Hacker Ethic: like lines of code in a systems program, compromise should be bummed to the minimum.