Quotes About Compromise

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?

I better tell you before, I know, but I know you don't like. So what I do?

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for? - Eric, club dead.

I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.

think if you love someone, you make an effort to suppress habits of yours that displease them, right? But those habits or inclinations are still there. Sam

I arranged the first meeting between Ariel Sharon and the settlers.

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

When you find the person that you settle down with, I guess you mellow. They are taming you, aren't they? Or you're taming them.

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

Democracy is messy.

But my wife doesn't often allow me to cook in our kitchen at home. She says that I'm messy and I don't clean up after myself!

If we have to talk to the devil to guarantee the safety and future of the Mexican people in the U.S., Mexico will talk to the devil.

I can't come back home with an agreement that will not be a win-win-win situation for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

I always try to do middle-of-the-road cinema.

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

I was a minister in the Vajpayee government. Atalji wanted to do so many things. But, since he was heading a coalition government, he could not do all those things.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

When we meet the very best, we have to give up.

The observed outcome may be one that everybody prefers, it may be one that nobody prefers, or it may be one that some prefer and others deplore.

The art of looking at the problem from the other person's point of view, identifying his opportunities and his interests, an art that has traditionally been practiced by diplomats, lawyers, and chess players, is at the center of strategic analysis.