Quotes About Compromise

I'm inhibited, isolated, haunted, unknown. However, I haven't compromised myself. And although I lie a good deal, it's mostly whimsical. I'm not living a lie, like the vindicator.

The businessman wants to create something for everyone, which leads to products that are middle of the road," said Brunner. "It becomes about consensus, and that's why you rarely see the spark of genius."37 Even if a great idea came along, it was impossible to get anything done. Norman described just such an occasion.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

Fine. If you insist. I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But-- I won't enjoy it.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy?

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

And when it comes to relationships, we're so demanding that we're making them near impossible.

reconciliation of views

All marriages are compromises, even down to the daily choice for dinner. No man is perfect, and no woman is perfect. How well they compromise—and accept and agree to those compromises—determines their level of happiness. As does the equitable share of power. If the balance is off, then the partner with more power must be more considerate. Otherwise, that partner may take advantage of the position.

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.

Her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way.

Had it been your uncle's doing, I must and would have paid him; but these violent young lovers carry everything their own way. I shall offer to pay him to-morrow; he will rant and storm about his love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Perhaps, he would now agree that you should sometimes let people persude you not to do things.

My dear, replied her husband, I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room. I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

afterwards.--She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings

El ceder sin convicción no habla en favor del entendimiento de ninguno de los dos .

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.