Quotes About Compromise

Let's just say that life has me beaten... So I give up! I admit there's no way I can win..." "What is it you want, Charlie Brown?" "How about two out of three?

Everytime there's a good suggestion, someone brings up the budget.

Never argue with a woman about her house. Remember that. It's hers, not yours." He waved his paint-brush toward the kitchen and whispered, "I may have built it, but in truth, we're just lucky she lets us sleep here.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.

Columnist Joseph Sobran writes, "The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism."35

When the church aligns itself politically, it gives priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its Christian confession of eternal truth. And when the church gives up its rightful place as the conscience of the culture, the consequences for society can be horrific.

How does a Christian deal with the inherent divided loyalties: duty to God and duty to the national interest? Can a Christian successfully avoid the subtle snares of power? Can a Christian make the compromises necessary for the everyday business of politics?

She whispers to you: Let me do the talking. You nod, unsure why you're going along with her, oh yeah, you are probably in love with her already, that's why.

That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's up around your ears and you're just trying to keep your [expletive]ing mouth shut.

Staying loyal to your journey means you never abandon yourself by compromising your integrity or discounting your intuition or the signals that come from your body—the knot in the gut, emotional detachment, or loss of energy that signals something is amiss.

If we succumb to fear, we start holding back, and do that all-to-common dance of getting close, then pulling away. When we remember that our safe harbor depends on our awareness and honesty, we're less likely to make internal compromises, put on masks, or act like a chameleon to attract a partner or keep a hurtful relationship together. If we live by truth, we may have pain, but we will always rest securely in ourselves.

Happy is measuring your life against the options and not wanting to change it. It's getting the best of a series of bargains, bad or otherwise.

Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours of the morning when he would go surfing. He thought it might be fun to have me come watch. "Fun for who?" I wanted to ask. I had never asked him to come to Happy Hour and watch me drink.

There's no need to threaten or bellow. I intend to discuss this quietly and rationally, or I won't discuss it at all. I'm asking you how to handle the dissolution with a minimum of fuss

make sure the compromises you make are ones God is truly asking you to make and that it's not just your impatience kicking in. Especially be wary as your age creeps up. You may be tempted to say "yes" to the wrong person because you don't want to wait any longer.

In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others. There

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Those who said they would do so only in return for a greased palm, got a little money.

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.