Quotes About Compromise

Yes we fight and say things to each other, but our love is strong enough to make it work, we both have to meet half way.

You ever get tired of being the bigger person? Or tired of being the one to compromise. Or realize you've come to far to settle? Yeah me either...

Key to making a relationship last: Avoid arguments, and tell the female she's right even when you and her know she's dead damn wrong.

If we won't live together, we shouldn't live at all.

The most difficult part of life is acceptance... You have few or no options when it comes to choices, and sometimes you may have to serve your enemy dinner with a smiling face.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Be selective in your battles. Sometimes PEACE is better than being right.

Life is a risk, Love is a compromise, if you aren't doing either, you're doing neither.

Si uno te acechara, debes darle algo que desee más que a ti»,

A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.

Most people decide at some point that it is better … to be enthralled with what is impoverished or abusive than not to be enthralled at all and so to lose the condition of one's being and becoming.

In other words, she wanted it both ways. There is much to be learned from wanting something both ways.

On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

Giving reasons during conflict to justify or defend a viewpoint is just as manipulative as giving reasons to attack that viewpoint. Neither of these routes is an honest assertive I want that can lead to a workable compromise of interests to quickly resolve the conflict.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

it is a mark of the kingdom's political maturity that in times of crisis its leading men would generally come together to debate their differences rather than immediately reaching for their swords.

the boundary agreed between the king and his erstwhile enemy, Guthrum,

it forced Æthelred to do what Byrhtnoth had refused to countenance, and pay the vikings to cease their plundering.

The conqueror's only concession was to allow them to be baptized in their final days,

William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed. Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.

Brower had said that he wouldn't mind dams in the Grand Canyon as long as the Bureau built a comparable canyon somewhere else. He received a standing ovation—in Denver.

If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?

Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.