Quotes About Compromise

The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.

Trade it out so in the end everyone got something, and the better dealmaker got a little more.

In politics, the smart move is not to say no and to know how to finesse yes.

You defined yourself by your enemy's reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.

it was the Jarvanka idea to try to trade off amnesty for the border wall.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

La soledad en pareja es un infierno consentido. En la vida de la pareja suelen existir desde el principio algunos detalles, ciertas discordancias sobre las que uno decide tácitamente callarse, con la seguridad entusiasta de que el amor acabará arreglando todos los problemas. Estos problemas crecen poco a poco, en silencio, hasta que unos años después terminan por explotar y destruir cualquier posibilidad de vida en común.

You're right, nobody's perfect. But in the right relationship, you're going to be perfect for each other. Because you tick each other's boxes in the things that matter to you. So you can overlook his snoring, or he can ignore your aversion to exercise, or whatever it is that doesn't exactly align, as long as you each fulfil the big things, the important ones.

Why did something so wrong have to feel so right

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have about marriage is that it involves two people building a life together. But what I wonder is this: Does it require each person to give up the life they built before? Must we shed our former selves? Do we have to give up that which was once important to us as a sacrifice to the gods of marriage?

Just to make things perfectly clear between us, you can have my peanut butter, but my bed is off-limits.

If I need something you can't give, I need to walk away, because sooner or later, all I'll see is what you can't give. I won't be able to see what you can.

You can't always get what you want.

A tree never grows overnight and a bird never straight soars to height. Progress is a steadfast process of change from one state to another. Don't Jump the process & let get growth compromised, evolve seamlessly and get MickeyMized.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

The roots of interpersonal conflict are often an excessive concern for oneself, and an inability to pay attention to the needs of others. It is sad to see how often people ruin a relationship because they refuse to recognize that they could serve their own interests best by helping others achieve theirs.

You know, I never was your dream girl, was I? And you certainly weren't my dream guy. We just sort of drifted together. And you've got to know that if things had stayed the same and my dream guy had turned up—" "I would've been in the way." "And vice versa.

I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.

Every design is a trade-off.