Quotes About Compromise

But politicians quickly learned to pacify the liberals by passing laws and regulations that, to pacify the conservatives, would not be enforced.

But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good

We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple. We were six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

Cuando yo sentía necesidad de dirigirme escaleras arriba, he aquí que mi esposa descendía por ella, o bien, cuando ella sentía necesidad de bajar, he aquí que yo ascendía. En eso consiste la vida matrimonial, según mi experiencia.

It is a habit of mine always to give up to Miss Halcombe. I find, by experience, that it saves noise.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Peace is war by other means.

I find that a high in one area of my life often produces a low in another

Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.

It amazes me what compromises we happily live with. We limp along, patching up, improvising.

Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to.

that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human but natural forces, choosing and discarding, compromising with his dream and his ambition like you must with the horse which you take across country, over timber, which you control only through your ability to keep the animal from realizing that actually you cannot, that actually it is the stronger.

His WIFE, understanding everything, wants him to stay. MARVIN wants to go. Or MARVIN wants to stay. She wants him to go. Anyway, he's going.)

Chicks had to realize, he said, that when they married a surfer, they married surfing. They had to either adapt or split.

I want to have my cake and eat it too.

You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that

Non ti amerò mai». «Non saprei che farmene, del tuo amore». «Va bene, allora sposiamoci».

Obliteration bombing of civilian populations had come to be seen as a military necessity. A terrible evil had been defended as a way to a greater good. After the bomb, all sorts of moral compromises were easier—nearly two million abortions a year seemed a mere matter of freedom of choice, and the plight of the poor in the world's richest nation was a matter of economic necessity.

No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse.

What I've learned. . . . I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up.

Everything, though, depended on whether we could teach the Ariekei what we had to.

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Living with a couple of Scots hasn't been easy, you know. Graham and Angus have made me realize that the old saw is true—it's necessary to either kill a Scot or agree with him, you have no other choice.