Quotes About Compromise

No vale la pena tener una reforma si se obtiene haciendo tantas concesiones que acaban por condenarla al fracaso.

She insists on negotiating, and she's not in a position to negotiate.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

The best way for them to ensure their psychological survival is to be in control of their environment and the people in it at all times. That's why it's their way or the highway, and compromise and flexibility seem impossible.

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

I'm learning to be a part of a team, even if the team doesn't always to what I want. - Amber Brown

We were both straining to bend and compromise for the other. But that was what marriage was about, wasn't it?

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

compensating mechanism for an apparent loss

Es así. El ser humano se acostumbra a todo. Si todos los días le dan una cucharada de mierda, primero hace arqueadas, después él mismo pide ansiosamente su cucharada de mierda y hace trampas para comer dos cucharadas y no una sola.

The hardest thing about winning is trying to do so without losing something of greater importance.

Miz Fitz, If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven. -Hellbound, a Lass Miz Fitz sez: You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

As he had demonstrated with the Soviets, Baker recognized that the person across the table had his or her own domestic politics to worry about and he made a point of looking for ways to satisfy those needs while still getting what he wanted.

don't mind. I just thought you might not want to." The three men

There are things in your life that you don't want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.

When people come into the office and say they've tried to make their marriage work, and I hear what the effort was, it seems to me that there's some lack of understanding of what effort is.

All this is to say that a faith in a living God that is preoccupied with certainty is sin, for it compromises the gospel—personally, locally, and globally. But it need not remain so. As Jesus said to the adulterous woman, "Go your way, and from now on do not sin again" (John 8:11).

He'd have to fuck her, but it was cheap rent.

It was a sixty-five, thirty-five split. That percentage isn't something I'd kill for.

There was being a whore, and then there was just plain debasing yourself—but it had paid off.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.