Quotes About Compromise

The way to get a babe to act in a blue movie is you offer her a million dollars. The way to get a dude is you just have to ask him.

Niemand kennt die komplizierten Abkommen, die zwei Leute miteinander aushandeln, um länger als die ersten zehn Minuten verheiratet zu bleiben.

In politics you couldn't please everybody, but you still had to do the calculus to please most of everybody, or you didn't get the votes.

This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Neighborliness means you give up your right to live your life the way you want to live it.

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

We compromised on my withdrawal. I didn't. We British don't withdraw from Ireland.

In 1974, Mahmoud Darwish wrote Yasser Arafat's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations: Today I have come bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

It will not be over until we talk

Are you trying to bribe me?" "Only if it works

Was that all it took? What? she asked, completely bewildered. To shut you up, he clarified with a definite grin this time. All it took was agreeing with you. She glared at him. If you'd ever tried agreeing with me before, you'd have known that, she snapped. I had to wait until you were right about something, he replied, then hurried to open the door before she could smack him, which she dearly wanted to do.

War will not save us

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

For in marriage a little licence,a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him.

For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes—one of the tragedies of married life.

I may as well confess that I gave Luzhin my French governess, my pocket chess set, my sweet temper, and the stone of the peach I plucked in my own walled garden.

Van tussled with his slightly overweight conscience (both grinning like old pals in their old gymnasium) — and accepted Dick's offer.

When you wanted me to spend my afternoons sunbathing on the Lake instead of doing my work, I gladly gave in and became a bronzed glamor boy for your sake, instead of remaining a scholar and, well, an educator.

sham idealists, [are] people who can somehow combine what they call the good and the beautiful with material things, such as a bureaucratic career, etc.

People realize that compromises and sacrifices are necessary in building a strong company. They accept the need for short-term personal sacrifices in order to advance the long-term interests of the corporation.

One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.

A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied