Quotes About Compromise

And I'll admit—I thought it might be best if we kept it all to the page, passed that notebook back and forth until we were ninety. But clearly that wasn't meant to be. And who am I to blow against the wind?

Just because I don't think we'd be good together doesn't mean we have to be apart. ...

Is that okay?" he asks, backing down a little. "How about Tuesday?" I say. "Wednesday." His seriousness is cracking. "Tuesday and a half." "Tuesday and three-quarters.

Just be warned," you said. "Someday you'll ask me to give up something I really love, and then it's going to get ugly.

A lot of the time, love feels like it's about figuring out what the other person wants and giving it over. Sometimes that's impossible. But sometimes it's pretty simple.

I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending.

The qualities of kindness, intelligence, dependability, athleticism, looks, and economic prospects are all present in the same person only rarely. Most of us must settle for someone who has less than the full complement of desirable qualities.

She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

She knew what my mother did not: either you want a clean floor or you want to use a mop, but you can't have both.

I sat him down the other night and explained as gently as possible that I do not care about ice-skating. I do not care about Michelle Kwan or Tara Lipinski and would be happy if I never hear the words triple lutz or double axel again. I told him that on Friday and walked into the kitchen an hour later to find him in tears. "It's heartbreaking," he said, watching his beloved skaters.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Life with another person is always difficult.

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

When my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Mohona Hossain hates Divargiit Singh. Hates all his movies. Hates him with a passion. She likes that other fool with the eyelashes like a lady! But we compromise. Never once have I burned a single video of hers.

I often wondered: is it some kind of a trade-off? Do others have to lose so we can win?

Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home and finding they don't fit. For the sake of appearances, he put up with them

Aw, git reconciled!.. You can't git her wid no fish sandwich.

We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.

We can't always agree on everything.

Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.