Quotes About Compromise

War asks many people to do unreasonable things.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Write some letters." "Don't want to." "Bake a cake to give that boy a slice of." "He might come while I'm still making it, and then we'd have to make conversation for an hour and a half till it was ready. Anyway, we've got some biscuits." "Well, I give up," he said.

Mas o que é melhor, almejar a pureza absoluta e fracassar completamente. ou fazer concessões e ter sucesso, mesmo que parcial?

human life is difficult; there are profundities and compromises and mysteries that look to the innocent eye like betrayal.

Was I wrong?" "Yes, of course. But you had no choice." "I must have." "No, you had to do it. If you hadn't done it, you'd have felt feeble." "It shouldn't be about how we feel—guilty, feeble—" "No, and it isn't. It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad. This is about as good a cover as anyone could find. Leave it at that.

No, y no es así como las tomamos. Se trata de elegir entre lo malo y lo menos malo.

No one with seven books in New York City settles for one piece of ass. That's what you get for a couplet.

However much you may have hated me, why don't you come back so we can continue with our linear, logical life like all the other couples who hate each other?

The best teachers seem to acknowledge the conflict between their vocations, reach some kind of internal compromise, and go on.

You're in love with a man, says Julie, who insists that he can love you only when you're standing in the exact center of whatever room you're in.

The inherent flaw with democratic elections is that they peddle the repulsive stink of neither/nor as the sultry perfume of either/or.

A good rule to remember is that, in relationships, there are no win-lose or lose-win combinations: There are only win-wins and lose-loses.

If slavery was not quite what Virginians really wanted, it carried them closer to their conservative utopia than any alternative which lay within reach.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship, I say. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

encroach, v. The first three nights we spent together, I couldn't sleep. I wasn't used to your breathing, your feet on my legs, your weight in my bed. In truth, I still sleep better when I'm alone. But now I allow that sleep isn't always the most important thing.

The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.

Lets always love each other, and never be in love with each other. And I agreed.

By the time I got there, you'd already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

Just be warned, you said. Some day you will ask me to give up something I really love, and then it`s going to get ugly.

i am constantly telling him that i'm not sure the laws of sex and the city apply when there's no sex and there's no city, but then he looks at me like i'm throwing spiked darts at the heart-shaped helium balloons that populate his mind, so i let it go

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.