Quotes About Compromise

Of course, it was the United States and Israel that had rejected diplomacy and the PLO that had been offering compromise for years, but Lewis's reversal of the facts was quite normal and unchallenged in the mainstream.

You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.

I would love to be a sellout if only someone would ask.

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with.

I want you more than I should, she heard herself say. I have you less than I want.

It's the wrong choice,Gennie. Serena, Justin said warningly, but she turned on him with her eyes flashing and her voice low with exasperation. Damn it,Justin, she's miserable! There's nothing like a stubborn, pig-headed man to make a woman miserable, is there, Gennie? With a half laugh,she dragged a hand through her hair. No,I don't guess there is. That works both ways, Justin reminded her. And if the man's pig-headed enough, Serena went on precisely, it's up to the woman to give him a push.

Truce, she decided and held out a hand. When he only stared at her,she gave a quick huff and swallowed another morsel of pride. Please. Trapped by the single word,he took the offered hand. All right. When she would have drawn her hand away, he tightened his grip. Why? I don't know, Gennie told him with fresh impatience. Just a wild urge to see if I can get along with an ogre. At the ironic lift of his brow, she sighed. All right,that was just a quick slip.I take it back.

I could never seem to make the people I love understand what I need. I don't know why.

Marriage is a series of compromises, and at its best, the compromises create a life, a partnership.

I should be home by midnight. Dad, I need a car. Uh-huh. And I need a villa in the south of France. Go figure. Lights out at eleven, he added as he turned away. I've got to have wheels

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

him we'd have better luck getting you to listen to me.

hair." "Deal.

In his experience you got more results with flat reason than angry confrontation. He just had to keep reminding himself he wanted results and not the satisfaction of a fight.

No, he didn't want to tame her any more than he wanted to tame the land. But by God, it was time for acceptance, on both sides.

Can you be bought? Pilar demanded. Maddy slid into the booth, grinned. Sure. Let's negotiate. Pilar sat down beside her.

When we make mindfulness central to the whole practice of the Buddha-Dharma we are in danger of watering down the teachings to a particular quality of mind – called mindfulness. The teachings point directly to awakening to freedom, opening the heart, and enlightening insights into the nature of things. Anything else means compromise; settling for less than the best. We

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

This is a consistent theme in stories about traveling to the future: Things are always worse when you get there. And I suspect this is because the kind of writer who's intrigued by the notion of moving forward in time can't see beyond their own pessimism about being alive. People who want to travel through time are both (a) unhappy and (b) unwilling to compromise anything about who they are. They would rather change every element of society except themselves.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Get on with my less-than life. I didn't want to feel better about being still alive. Start compensating.