Quotes About Compromise

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

It is impossible to say whether the fact that I am instructing my husband on how to eat, or that he heeds my agitation and revulsion not at all and continues to buy tubs of meringues to slurp at will, is more indicative of the state of our marriage.

it's an even bargain -one in which we both lose.

La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

Sure, you can raise your speed limit to 80, but we'll just hold on to that highway grant money next year. The states almost always cave; they can't afford not to.

It was a good thing; and to admit that a good thing has derived from an evil thing is to bend the knee to evil to some extent.

As I was to learn, avoiding conflict causes conflict to seek you out.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Nevertheless, some Southerners like James Monroe still had serious reservations about the compromise, believing that assumption would reduce "the necessity for State taxation" and thus would "undoubtedly leave the national government more at liberty to exercise its powers and increase the subjects on which it will act.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

It seemed so tawdry what he had offered her - mere money - compared with what she offered him. He offered her an extraneous thing with which he could part without a pang, while she offered him herself, along with disgrace and shame, and sin, and all her hopes of heaven.

I give dignity second place to expedience," said Cugel.

If there were no fools,' said Circumbright, 'either among us or among them, we could co-inhabit the earth. there's the flaw in any compromise negotiation - the fact of fools, both among the Teleks and the common men.

You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.

give dignity second place to expedience

For every victory, Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, there is a price.

Non sempre chi accondiscende è debole.

guess a woman can either love or be loved, but it's almost impossible to have both.

Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now . . . it's like quitting before you start.

If one side says, "We can only go as low as $36,000 on this car," you can say, "I can't go higher than $30,000. How am I supposed to come up with the $36,000?" And just see what they say. Ask "open-ended questions" starting with "how" or "what." Ask a lot of them. Be prepared in advance with your "how" questions.