Quotes About Compromise

If he is a bastard, at least he is our bastard'

promoting concord in the place of discord

Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature.

My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power. Once you identify the faith with a particular candidate or party or with the quest for political influence, ultimately it is the faith that suffers. Compromise may work in politics. It's less appropriate to the realm of faith and belief.

We all harbor irreconcilable ideas. (People are no damn good, but I'm a fine fellow. Being overweight is a grave threat to my health; please pass the doughnuts. Life is short; let's watch TV.) Yet most of us get along pretty well.

I have a conflicted view on beer styles. As historical artifacts, they're endlessly fascinating to study. And I think that they generally represent confluences -- and compromises -- of technology, agriculture, cuisine, and geology that make the most of what a region has to offer. That means existing styles are usually quite wonderful to drink, and I'm all for that.

For Jai and me, our dented cars became a statement in our marriage. Not everything needs to be fixed.

Hi, this is Randy. I waited until I was thirty-nine to get married, so my wife and I are going away for a month. I hope you don't have a problem with that, but my boss does." I then gave the names of Jai's parents and the city where they live. "If you call directory assistance, you can get their number. And then, if you can convince my new in-laws that your emergency merits interrupting their only daughter's honeymoon, they have our number.

Peace is a precious commodity. Like any other precious commodity it is expensive. Those who wish peace should be willing to pay and sacrifice for it.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

The agreement gave me 1.9 percent of the gross sales from franchisees. I had proposed 2 percent. The McDonalds said, "No, no, no! If you tell a franchisee you are going to take two percent, he'll balk. It sounds too full and rounded. Make it one and nine-tenths, and it sounds like a lot less." So I humored them on that one. The brothers were to get .5 percent out of my 1.9 percent. This seemed fair enough, and it was.

The problem with Israel was her compartmentalized religion. She was oblivious to the actual moral nature of her many compromises, "desensitized to desecration", as long as she kept up the outward rites of Israelite religion.

"A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy," he said dryly.

No matter what we want of life — we have to give up something in order to get it.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

When I said I'd give my right arm to you, I didn't think you'd ask me for it, but you did. You said, Give it to me. And I said OK.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent.

The first year of marriage, you definitely get to throw the wife card out whenever you're mad.

I made the mistake of being too agreeable and catering to every need of my man.

We are a big-tent party, but we have to come together as a caucus and say 'These are the things we can agree on' and push forward.