Quotes About Compromise

We work together to get things done every damn day. Most Americans don't live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, liberals, or conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do, often something they do not want to do. But they do it, impossible things every day that are only made possible through the little, reasonable compromises we all make.

one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

Life never is just about what you want. Seldom ever.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that.

We all make trade-offs to get what we want. But no matter what you stand to gain, when the thing you're asked to trade is yourself, the price is too high.

some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this or some of that or all of this and none of that. We make trade-offs we think are best at the time.

that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

as though the architect had tried to please everyone via the dubious method of insane and haphazard compromise.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.

What you want your life to be and what it becomes are never the same," I said. "It's only about what you end up with or what you settle for. And by the time that happens, it's too late for you to do anything else" "What would you have changed?" she asked. "The last twenty years," I said.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Just like a damned man, he thought exasperatedly. She got what she wanted, then curled up and went to sleep. That was what he was supposed to do, blast and confound her bloody impudence.

Malo se ona trudila, i mnogo se kajala, / I Å¡ap?u?i >Nikad ne?u pristati< — uvijek pristajala.« (Byron)

My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.

But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end.

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

Next time you're about to rule out some guy because he's not your ideal, try to focus on the good things about him, because some guy is going to have to focus on the good things about you, even though he may have wanted someone more easygoing or taller. Every time you start to dissect some guy, note that he's willfully ignoring all of this in order to go out with you.