Quotes About Compromise

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

There's a bit of a problem. The script that I like, the network doesn't like. The script that they like, I don't like.

I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

There is no doubt that the sets are unhygienic but you really can't do much about it because we have to shoot, come what may.

You're selective when it comes to sex, but once you're with someone, the standards you would normally hold yourself to go out the window...

Marriage, each of them realised intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance where one person complimented the other.

She looked directly at me. "You're a great father, Russ. I know that now. If you're willing to move to Atlanta like Marge said, and you want to split time with London, I think we can probably figure something out." Which is exactly

There are no buts, she said. Not about this. Not with me. I love you, Wilson, and I know that you love me. And if we're going to make it work between us, we're both going to have to give a little. I'm not asking you to believe. I'm asking you to it's acome with me to church. Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even if you don't want to. Like I did with the wedding.

Killing off the other party is one way of achieving universal intersubjective agreement.

Clive was rapidly coming to the conclusion that being engaged to somebody meant that he spent an awful lot of time not doing things he wanted to do.

I've had countless conversations with or about people who are sleeping in separate bedrooms, as if sleeping in the same bed is all there is to staying married, but however bad things get, sharing a bed has never been problematic; it's the rest of life that horrifies.

When you think about it it's like brexit. There are going to be two years of talks before we even agree on what the issues are.

She thought she'd focus on the compliment, rather than the terrifying glimpse she'd been given into her flatmate's soul. She found herself particularly worried by Marjorie's willingness to do all that, the slicing and the bleeding and the murdering, for only a percentage of the advantages she envied. There was something in this compromise that made it seem more real than Barbara wanted it to be.

Dan and Steve. I've know them for years. They're a bit dull, I'm afraid, but I have to see them sometimes. Duck noires, right? Sorry? I call 'em duck noires. Sort of a mixture of lame duck and bête noire. People you don't want to see but kinda feel you should.

Laura didn't run off with Ray because I bought her CDs she wasn't that keen on, and to pretend otherwise is just .. just... Psychowank. If she thinks that, then she's missing the Brazilian rain forest for the twigs. If I can't buy specially priced compilation albums for new girlfriends, then I might as well give up, because I'm not sure that I know how to do anything else.

Merea bertiga harus kehilangan sesuatu dalam rangka untuk memperoleh hal lainnya.

And he'd agreed with her about all of it, except he hadn't agreed really; he'd just lost the arguments.

He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

A vörösgárdisták még a forgalmi lámpák rendjét is meg akarták változtatni, mondván, hogy a piros szín nem jelenthet megálljt, csak haladást. addig is, amíg a vita folyt, kikapcsolták a lámpákat.

As the cabinet members all said no, Lincoln had summarized: "Seven nays and one aye, the ayes have it"!

and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered when you could do quadratic equations in your head why you had a basketball scholarship but you always knew that you had to take what they were giving since that was all you were going to get but you never fooled yourself about either the taking or the giving or the needing or the having you just sort of said to yourself I'll have to see what is being offered

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?