Quotes About Compromise

I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.

She snuck a guilty peek at Matt. She didn't want to be selfish, she didn't want to hurt him, but music was who she was. If she didn't have that, she didn't have anything. As long as she was going to let him have it back eventually, surely he could survive sharing part of his valley until she remembered how to sing?

getting six woman to agree on something is like getting Dr. Laura to agree with Howard Stern.

Marriage is a partnership Phillip, not a feudal kingdom. Until you can accept that I have the right to dictate the course of my on life, I will not marry you. Until you can accept my wishes and my opinions are just worthy of consideration as yours, I will not marry you. Until you can accept that what I would give up to be your wife is just as important as what you offer in exchange, I will not marry you.

Being good all the time was a bad bargain.

Marriage is a partnership, Phillip, not a feudal kingdom. Until you can accept that I have the right to dictate the course of my own life, I will not marry you. Until you can accept that my wishes and my opinions are just as worthy of consideration as yours, I will not marry you. Until you can accept that what I would give up to be your wife is just as important as what you offer in exchange, I will not marry you.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

This is the hill you want to die on? Really? A we-can-be-just-friends speech?

Men are so difficult - If they think you're trying to push them in a particular direction they dig in their heels and won't budge.

People change for each other all the time. Take any love story, any great love story at all, and you'll see that people have to be willing to change if they're going to make things work out. Like Shrek, when Fiona tells Shrek that she's sick of his burping and farting and everything. And Shrek's like, 'I'm an ogre. Deal with it.' And Fiona says, 'What if I can't?' So Shrek takes that potion that turns him into a hunky prince. He does it out of love for Fiona.

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

By bringing in Haro, the king and his advisers would be giving up a significant amount of the profits.

the first clause, King Charles appeared to accede to Magellan's insistence on a ten-year exclusive:

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

His job was to make losses feel smaller. But the students never turned their C-minuses into Bs; new funding never materialized. You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.

Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway.

You never got what you wanted ; you just learned to get by without it.

From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton—letting him have his assumption plan, but hopefully in the form of a compromise that would force him to give up something in return. Chapter

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.