Quotes About Compromise

When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself.

The usual deal: whatever's going, if it pays, we'll take it. Sorry state of affairs, but that's how it is. Ain't a kind or just 'verse, and nobody's owed a living.

So you have you price, I said with a mouthful of crumbs. Your soul for a cookie. Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and then shot me the bird.

Gazzy: Just Ten? Angel: No. Gazzy: Five? Angel: No.

I remembered something my first partner had told me. Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.

Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.

You start a marriage with two eyes open, you stay in it with one eye closed.

Everyone is an idealist, until the issue affects them. I knew I was going to do what I had to do.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Unfortunately, I am not the typical, old-school, 'Yes dear, you're right,' just to get out of a situation. I am more of the type to work it out until you think I'm right or I think you're right.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

Peace cannot be unilateral.

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

I am a unionist. But I'm a unionist up to the point of, if other people don't want to be in a union with me then, well, fine.

I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you.

There has always been this feeling among the religious public of, 'Why can't we all unite?' Shas, UTJ, Jewish Home... But, of course, the differences between the political parties in practice are too big to bridge.

My goal is to unite the party, to bring it together.

I will do my part every day to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to unite us, and not divide us.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.