Quotes About Compromise

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other.... There are always plenty of surprises-and lots of give and take-once you're married.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of "deals," or compromises, between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . .

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.

Soft words are hard arguments.

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

I'm not trying to box you in. I'm just trying to live with you.

Roarke had to deal with her moods. It was in the marriage rules.

She broke off a piece of bacon and offered it to the cat who sat staring holes through her. "For him, this is makeup sex. That's all you get," she said when Galahad inhaled the bacon then affectionately butted his head against her calf. "Just FYI, if you let another man rub up against you, and I sniff it out, you won't be able to buy me off with bacon." He handed her the syrup pitcher so she could drown her French toast. "So noted.

At least I'm not asking you to go to six o'clock Mass with me in the morning." "Darling Eve, to get me to do that the amount and variety of the sexual favors required are so many and myriad even my imagination boggles." "I don't think you can exchange sexual favors for Mass attendance. But if I decide to go check it out, and I get the chance, I'll ask the priest.

Damn it, Roarke, he's going to come back and poke at me, and try to make me drink one of his weird brews. I just need a hot shower. Let me up. Have a heart." "I do, and it's yours.

Love doesn't hang on conditions, but marriage bloody well hangs on compromise.

Will do cop work for sex? - It's become my daily mantra.

I don't care for the fact that you have a point. ~ Roarke

The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other. -Rhage That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan. -Phury

It was the wife, John thought. And she was giving this tough guy a tongue-lashing. And the man was taking it. Okay. I love you. Bye. Tohrment flipped the phone closed and put it in his pocket. When he focused on John again, he clearly respected his wife enough not to roll his eyes and make some macho, shithead comment about pesky women.