Quotes About Compromise

It's not because I don't like people that I don't go. I search for a compromise within myself... and while I'm busy thinking about it, I miss my chance...every time.

Men and women are natural enemies, like cat and dog--only more so. They are forced to live together for a time, or this wonderful race couldn't go on.

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.

If all the other churches had followed the example of those who resisted, the government would have been confronted with a stalemate that might have forced a compromise. Instead, the state marched over us.

American mythology would have it that divorced or widowed women in their middle years were desperate to remarry. That had not been Polly's experience. Most had made lives they enjoyed and would only compromise for a very shiny white knight with a particularly breathtaking steed.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

but look," he said, a little desperately. "What would the world be like if everyone settled things like this?" Frieda stood up. "What is the world like?" she said.

When you are having difficulties, a single attack of "Yeahbut maybe I should compromise a little for the sake of practicality" can bring an inglorious end to the fulfillment of your dream.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

Like a voter's face saying, I may not like you, but I'll vote for you anyway because you might give me something I want.

War with smiles and firm handshakes.

A reactionary is anyone who is not prepared to buy his victory at any price.

I nodded, not yet realizing that as far as the world was concerned, what was best for the baby could mean something entirely different from what was best for me.

I didn't tell him the rest of what I knew -- that once you gave up even a little of yourself, it wasn't long before you gave up everything. But he'd learn that for himself soon enough.

standpoint of the Constitution as it had existed until then, Lincoln's proposed order was a fundamental violation—and pointed toward a fundamental restructuring. The Constitution had been born as a compromise. That compromise had been repeatedly updated and reaffirmed until the Civil War began. As it had evolved, the compromise Constitution protected slavery in order to preserve a union capable

But then isn't that what marriage is, two people fighting for land rights to the same six inches?

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

It didn't feel good, but on the other hand, it felt just right.

Ah good, I thought, another thesis topic although unfortunately not in my field, id est proving that women are almost invariably the appeasers when fights occur that lead to stalemates

I'm not asking much,' he said. 'Only a miracle. Can you do this?' Wong looked down at the briefing papers in front of him for a moment. Then he looked at Tambi in the eye. 'Miracles we have fifteen per cent extra surcharge. Is it okay?

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.