Quotes About Compromise

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

You cannot have it both ways.

When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.

Reasons are whores.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us.

It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't get X actor, so they go with Y, and it doesn't turn out to be as good of a movie as it should have been.

We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.

I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.