Quotes About Compromise

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.

If they could redirect the energy they'd spent on trying to find fault with the other side and put it toward finding a new direction that worked for everyone, they could all benefit.

You may be an expert in environmental protection policy, but when it comes to science, you're an amateur. How much do you actually know about undersea resource development? If you truly want to come up with a solution that allows both, you'll need to have the same amount of knowledge and experience with both. It's arrogant to think that knowing only one is sufficient. Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.

Christians who compromise on millions of years can encourage others toward unbelief concerning God's Word and the gospel.

Flexibility can come at the cost of increased complexity.

Versioned interfaces are a reasonable compromise when you absolutely must introduce new operations to an existing interface-based abstraction without affecting client code. They are not a long-term solution for frequently changing abstraction, because of the complexity they create both for client and framework developers.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.

Self-betrayal occurs when we do to another what we sense we should not do or don't do what we sense we should. Thus self-betrayal is a sort of moral self-compromise, a violation of our own personal sense of how we ought to be and what we ought to do.

A sword may be surrendered with more grace and dignity than a point of view.

Larry didn't agree, but he didn't argue.

don't we all choose to live in the dump in certain aspects of our lives?

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

People who refuse to let go are becoming more common, and each case teaches us the same valuable lesson: Don't engage in a war. Wars rarely end well because by definition someone will have to lose.

Conditional rejections are not rejections - they are discussions.

The key insight: each entity in a situation represents 100 percent. Each entity in a conflict has 100 percent of the responsibility for resolving the conflict

But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band; go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that too. .. And that would suck, but I'll do it. I can lose you like that, if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

Unfortunately, sometimes the things we love can also kill us.

Dar as intelege daca alegi dragostea, dragostea pentru Adam in detrimentul dragostei pentru muzica. Orice ai alege, castigi. Si, orice ai alege, pierzi. Ce pot sa-ti spun? Dragostea e dificila.

Tell you what," I said. "I'll learn to cook when you learn to scrub toilets.

On Chiang Kai-Shek: "He's a son of a bitch but he's our son of a bitch."

Marcus: Cherry? Jillian: My ten-year-old niece. Marcus: She's named after a piece of fruit? Jillian nodded. Jillian: So is her twin sister, Apple. Marcus: You're kidding me. Jillian: Unfortunately, I'm serious. Their father is fond of fruit pies and thought it would be cute. Marcus: And their mother didn't protest? Jillian: She thinks Steven's cute, so she gives him whatever he wants.