Quotes About Compromise

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.

It would be so nice to have a real choice, fumed Gyuri. It was like Hungary being between Germany and the Soviet Union. What sort of choice was that? Which language would you like your firing squad to speak?

I guess I need to find a happy medium, someplace between giving them what they want and ending up face-down in a pool of my own goddamn integrity.

I showed up, shut up, and made it work. But it felt like compromise. And if you ask me, compromise feels like amputation.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

There's a point in conflict resolution when the next person who talks loses. You're ready to play with the big boys when you can recognize that moment.

If you ever get in a relationship, the key to fighting is, never respond. Don't take the bait. You'll still get shit for not answering, but it's a smaller pile. Just let them win, because they always win anyway. That's the big secret to women: They're genetically built to win. We're built to watch TV. Better to forfeit at the beginning instead of letting it fester into a three-day thing.

He's wrong, but I don't say anything. That's how you make a marriage last.

I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

When you don't get a certain quality of work, you end up doing lesser quality of work because there's no work. I'm a professional actor, I have bills to pay so I end up taking work which ideally I wouldn't have.

Politics, by its nature, emits a lot noise.

I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting healthcare-reform legislation, only to see it put on the back burner by the North American Free Trade Agreement.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

I'm not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Democracy is not perfect.

When you're around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That's what happens in every family.

Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.