Quotes About Compromise

the strength of a democracy is not how well we agree but how well we disagree.

the ingredients for the best political donnybrook

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.

congressman was a hog that could understand only a blow on the snout.

one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat.

Neither of us gets to be the princess all the time.

What do you need to give me what I need?"... You're negotiating with your teenager not because you're a wimp, or because you're afraid of her, or because you don't care. No, you're negotiating with your teenager because imposing rules makes bad relationships worse, while negotiating solutions makes good relationships better.

He may bring home the bacon, but he won't be bringing home your bacon.

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

When I was a schoolboy,' he said, more calmly, 'we had a prayer about being careful not to mistake bluntness for frankness, and obstinacy, I think it was, for constancy. You know, Percy, I have always respected your principles, but you must face the fact that we all have to make compromises in this life if we are to live amicably together. All I am doing is to show you how willing we are to settle things for the best. Even hares and hounds have to shake down in the same world.

Lo tengo clarísimo: si un hombre no puede casarse con la mujer a la que ama, tiene que buscarse una que le aporte el mayor número de ventajas posible.

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness.

Whatever path they followed to get there, politicians in government are finding that their tenure is getting shorter and their power to shape policy is decaying. Politics was always the art of the compromise, but now politics is downright frustrating—sometimes it feels like the art of nothing at all.

La política siempre ha sido el arte del compromiso, pero ahora parece haberse convertido en el arte de impedir que se logren acuerdos.

Books and marriage go ill together.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Citizens associate the art of diplomacy with peace, without considering that there is as much cruelty in diplomacy as on the battlefield.

Different personalities make politics interesting.

Every free thing has an invisible cost attached to it.

Most philosophers cannot last in a marriage because they cannot use the agree-to-disagree method before something that is totally out of their morals.