Quotes About Compromise

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes.

Love does not mean she gets to ride the bulldozer while you lay in the street.

The different colors represent the husband and the wife. What will happen when they're kneaded together? The colors could mix; they could divide neatly down the middle; one color could completely overwhelm the other—whatever happens, the two smaller balls are going to smash together and recreate themselves as a one, slightly bigger ball. That's my take on marriage.

Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

Strike, but hear me.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Everybody's style of speaking is a mixture of echoes dating from different epochs of the past: hers recalls the prudent and modest civil servants of the last century who were proud that they represented the state and who took care not to compromise themselves by saying the wrong thing.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace.

Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.

It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.

Cap and trade is not an easy one for refiners, so we tried to get some moderation in the bill, and we did, but not near as much I would like.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.