Quotes About Compromise

Virginians want you to work across the aisle.

If you want to get along, go along.

We did something this year that was not based on animosity.

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

In the 10 years I've been with my wife we've probably argued twice.

At each sentence my hostess put her head forward, looking at me with an innkeeper's keen scrutiny, a happy compromise between the instinct of a police constable, the astuteness of a spy, and the cunning of a dealer.

The handsomest wondered at her easy surrender. The men could not understand such luck as the Baron's, not regarding him as particularly fascinating. A few indulgent women said it was not fair to judge the Countess too hastily; young wives would be in a very hapless plight if an expressive look or a few graceful dancing steps were enough to compromise a woman.

There are those for whom a woman would love to make such a sacrifice; even if, as often happens, it is for the sake of a man who cannot make allowances for an outbreak of temper.

En lo que no tiene razón. Que me guste desesperadamente, muy bien. Pero que vaya yo a exigir el pago de un pagaré de amor firmado sobre una carpeta de meningitis, ¡diablo! eso no.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Hephzibah normally left the dishes until the next day. Piled up in the sink so that it was near impossible to fill a kettle. And what the sink wouldn't take would stay on the kitchen table. Treslove liked that about her. She didn't believe they had to clean up after every excess. There wasn't a price to pay for pleasure.

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

They loved Israel, but they seem to have loved security more. They made their public peace with Rome and went on about the business of living.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

I want you to make u and go halfzies on this cake. K? But. . . I want a piece too, so i guess we'll have to go thirdzies. . . Awwww, we're not going to be able to split the strawberry on top though. What should we do? Maybe I should just take it after all strawberries are my favorite. . . oh! I forgot to ask Hiku-chan, Kau-chan do you like strawberries? -Hunny

HB: So why does a person get involved with someone who's entirely wrong for him? NG: I think the answer, quite simply, is that you don't always get to decide to whom you give your heart.

Children aren't only less inhibited than adults; they are also less powerful, and smaller too. They may or may not be more open-minded and liberated than grown-ups, but they are forced to live in a world that wasn't designed for them, and one that is not primarily concerned with their desires and their welfare. And so children are constantly compromising, constantly adjusting to an environment that is clearly not theirs, not yet. That's wisdom, not innocence.

Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says. No, Olivia, just one." How about four?" Two." Three." Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

While compromising may be the name of the game in the world of business, in this candy land we call love, it is not compromising your standards and remembering what you really want and deserve that will ultimately win the day.

I'm caught, he thought, between a cushion and a soft place

There are worse forms of prostitution than whoring. -Inspector John Rebus