Quotes About Compromise

Kissing me won't make me more agreeable," she whispered. "I'm not trying to make you more agreeable." His voice was rough and low. "I just can't help myself.

If I compromise on this, soon I'll compromise on other things and then I won't be me anymore.

If we agree to your proposal, you'll expect us to abide by your contract, which may require us to compromise our ethics.

So snarl all you want, princess. But you will marry me, because you have no choice. You won't win this fight with farmers. You need a cold ruthless bastard like me, and I'm the only one here.

Working for Spider was difficult. He was reasonable, but only when circumstances permitted; understanding of difficulties, yet completely unaffected by them. And he expected impossible things in an impossible timeframe.

To exist in peace, we have to sacrifice that violence.

He shook his head. "Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one." "How do you decide what is a 'small' wrong? Let's say, you buy the safety of many with the life of a child. That child means everything to her parents. You devastated them. There is no greater wrong you can do to them. Why would that be a 'small' evil?

Deirdre threw the recorder onto the table. Nagrad's face, frozen on the screen, mocked her with grey eyes. "What do you want from me, Robert? Every time I tried to bring up the money, he would show me more porn. The man asked me if I would suck his cock! How do you counter that?" A soft voice interrupted, "By saying, 'That would depend on the size of your instrument, my lord. Would you care to take off your pants so I can determine if it would be a good fit?

Look, it can be fast, good, or cheap. You can have any two but never all three." "Why?" "It's the law of the universe.

She stared at him, stunned. He braced himself. "We need the guns, Elara." "And you just made that decision without me?" Her voice was so sharp, he wanted to check himself for cuts.

Here's what I find about compromise, don't do it if it hurts inside, 'cause either way you're screwed and eventually you'll find that you may as well feel good, you may as well have some pride. (Amy Ray)

We make concessions. To get along with others. To make life go more smoothly. Even when we'd rather not." "But that's when life begins to lose some of its shine, don't you think?

Love, yes. But sometimes love must sacrifice itself in order to remain love.

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.

What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow.

It is one thing to be democratic, quite another to be inconvenienced.

la política de apaciguamiento

Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic mentality, respect for authority, resignation to bureaucracy, enthusiasm for political argument

de la pasión política, nadie escuchaba las voces razonables que llamaban al diálogo o la negociación.

Me propuso matrimonio al conducirme al aeropuerto. Le contesté lo que se espera de una respetable dama madura: De casarse, nada, pero si estás dispuesto a viajar con frecuencia a California, podemos ser amantes, ¿qué te parece? Pobre hombre... ¿qué me podía contestar? Que sí, claro.

Jaime sugirió a su hermana que donara, cambiara o vendiera los productos perecibles, pero Blanca se negó a compartir sus tesoros. Alba comprendió entonces que su madre, que hasta entonces parecía ser la única persona equilibrada de la familia, también tenía sus locuras.

para complacer a un hombre era mucho trabajo; sería más práctico que él buscara una mujer a su gusto.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.