Quotes About Compromise

Peace can be find between good and evil. It's not so easy to find that sweet spot!

Self-interest must be sacrificed if you wish to keep your marriage alive, or to keep your significant one attracted to your attributes.

Sometimes it rains and other times clear skies, life is full of compensations. We must compromise to its terms and conditions; without complaining.

The paradise of two lovers is to meet. Their hell begins when they start living together and know each other inside and out.

There is no real love in politics since you have to marry the daughter of your closest enemy to keep the peace for a while.

To be married, you must become tolerant and avoid most of the feelings of resisting in every situation.

Marriage is the grave of love.

Any gospel which does not embrace both 'evangelism' and 'social action' is a counterfeit, offering either an escapist's dream, which leaves power structures of the world untouched, or a mere social reform which leaves the soaring spiritual dimension of reality out of consideration, and thereby dooms itself to compromise and failure.

To retrain the imagination and the natural impulses to resist the murky short-term delights of the pagan world is harder still. To make and sustain marriages of genuine mutual submission is perhaps hardest of all. Compromises and second-best solutions are easy. To go for the full version of discipleship is to sign on for spiritual warfare.

My work means that we have lived in different parts of the world and in each there has always been something to be afraid of. Gangsters, extremist political groups Right and Left tossing bombs into restaurants, hijacks, holdups, a city plumb on the line of an earthquake fault. We have long had a compact, with ourselves, with life; life is dangerous. We live with that; in the one certainty that fear is the real killer.

When was the last time you lost an argument?" He pretended to think about it. Then, leaning down, he whispered in her ear, "A few hours ago when you refused to stop the car and crawl into the backseat with me.

Well, Kaleb's voice whispered in Nikita's mind, it seems this will make strange bedfellows out of us all.

understood who she was, understood that a small surrender didn't equal a larger one.

Don't hurt us and we won't hurt you. DR. A day later, a response had been found in Lucas's lair. Agreed. SD.

But, Riley, I'll only bend so far. You can't meet me halfway, this will end." It wasn't a threat. No, it was something far more important. And he understood. "I'll try, Mercy. I'll give it everything I have." It was a raw promise, from the heart of the wolf, from the soul of the man.

I seduce you into forgiving me.

you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

I said I don't want it in the house, is that clear?' She turned and left. Discussion closed. I knew better than to argue. I cast a guilty glance over my shoulder at Aphra. She was grinning at me. What she doesn't know won't hurt her, Reg.

How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil?

Jimmy Carter did not present himself as perfect or pious ... Neither did he compromise his understanding of the Gospel by verbal dodging or double talk. He took a political risk by being so forthright about his faith; in the end though, I believe his candor worked in his favor.' - Billy Graham

Tomé não foi persuadido a olhar para dentro, para o seu coração, mas a avaliar provas no mundo externo. Ele, então, fez um compromisso com base em fatos relevantes, não por causa de uma ausência de fatos e certamente não contra eles.

Forging peace between people always outweighed the truth.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.