Quotes About Compromise

And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Dialogue still reigns supreme as a method for connection and conflict resolution.

Quizá era momento de claudicar en mis anhelos de grandeza. Convertirme en una mamá modelo dedicada al cien por ciento a mis hijos y a mi marido. Olvidarme de que solo a través de la danza podía alcanzar mis metas y vivir más en concordia con mis posibilidades. En otras palabras, aceptar mi mediocridad y mi pusilanimidad

a man who wishes to profess goodness at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not so good. Hence it is necessary for a prince who wishes to maintain his position to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge . . . according to necessity.'25

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

The fear of being alone is born out of keeping company with parts of yourself that want you to feel incomplete so that they can lead you into one self-compromising relationship after another!

Why couldn't we let each other alone? " she asked in a low voice. "We fell in love because we were so different. Then all we did was twist and pull at each other, trying to make changes that couldn't be made—""I know. Why should anyone do that? Why is it that we can't think of any higher destiny for the people we love than that they become just like ourselves?

Elveszett a jöv?… Furcsa, mi? Ilyenkor fellázad a hús, de most nem fog… már az se lesz… Ez így fog rohadni szépen, fokozatosan, amíg nem születnek ifjak, és újrakezdik a forradalmat, ugyanolyan felemásan, hülyén, elvakultan, átgondolatlanul, félszegen, és majd belemennek a kompromisszumokba, mi mást is tehetnének… és megy tovább a tinglitangli…

do everything, I thought, on the contrary, whatever you can to resist the ingenious temptations of compromises, cling to the suffering, stir up the dread, for the monsters are also the benevolent guardians of the survivor's presence within me

Life's more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don't ever join them. They're the gravediggers of our civilization -- the safe men, the compromisers, the money-makers, the muddlers-through.

The thing about marriage is, you end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying to.

People ask me what I'm doing tomorrow. I'm married. Please ask my wife what I want to do tomorrow.

We need to support one another by being honest about the compromises we make and by speaking openly about who we are.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off, I'm not in the mood to compromise.

There is a great love, in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

Part of loving someone: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Can you imagine. Not only can you reason and compromise, you know what you're going to do next!

Can you imagine. Not only can you reason and compromise. You know what you're going to do next!

I will never compromise the truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love, rather than to lose that someone you love because of your foolish pride.

He was also wondering, as he dressed, at the humiliations men will suffer for a woman that they will not suffer for any other thing, even for their politics.

the only argument you ever win is the one you don't have.