Quotes About Compromise

Dad is looking at the bookshelves, deep in thought, deciding which book should go where. Once, Mom came home from work and discovered that he had turned all the books around so that the bindings were against the wall and the pages faced out. He said it was calming not to have all those words floating around and "creating static." Mom made him turn them back. She said it was too hard to find a book when she couldn't read the titles. Then she poured herself a big glass of wine.

Los dictadores y los regímenes autoritarios pueden destruir a los escritores de dos modos: persiguiéndolos o colmándolos de prebendas oficiales.

Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Hij dwingt zich tot het eten van zijn yoghurt, want regelmaat moet er zijn, maar halverwege ontdekt hij dat hij eigenlijk helemaal niet van yoghurt houdt en hij laat de rest staan.

Our unending discords are the ransom of our freedom.

When confronting someone, refrain from using the words always or never. When you say to someone: "You always…" or "You never…," the other person is going to focus more on that one word

Let's go somewhere in private and try to resolve this." "Let's talk this over and find a suitable compromise." "I'd like to hear how you saw the situation so that I better understand.

Here's how you see the issue: ________. And here's how I see it: ________. Let's see where we can come together on this." "Since we don't agree why this happened, let's lay out the facts and come up with a solution we both can live with.

Why don't we each state our viewpoints? Then we'll see if we can find common ground." "We need to resolve this somehow. The only way to do that is for each of us to be flexible and try to come together.

To me it wasn't trivial. Do you have a few minutes now? I'd like to talk this over and find an agreeable solution. (compromise) Let's go into the conference room where we can talk in private." After closing the door, Kate said: "Why don't we try to look at the situation from each other's viewpoint? That may help us find an agreeable solution." (compromise)

Going forward, I expect you to treat me respectfully. If you don't or can't, then please don't say anything to me. (compromise) I don't deserve to be treated this way, and I'm not going to accept it anymore

Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war.

True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked.

You are headstrong and I am magisterial. Our tolerance of each other is a constantly recurring miracle.

Will she report what she told me?' 'No.' A corner of his mouth twitched. 'That's why I put up with you; you could have answered with fifty words and you did it with one.' 'I've often wondered. Now tell me why I put up with you.' 'That's beyond conjecture. ...

I decided never to eat bacon again. But I happen to adore bacon, so that didn't last long.

Ou seja, total capitulação da empresa à força da greve. A empresa começa com cara de Rambo e termina com jeitinho de Clodovil.

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

The fundamentalist mind...is essentially Manichean; it looks upon the world as an arena for conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, and accordingly it scorns compromises (who would compromise with Satan?) and can tolerate no ambiguities.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Ever since the Renaissance, the Italian engineering mind has always had a special capacity for viewing a project with a fresh and practical artistry. The Italian talent for stripping down to bare essentials the elements of compromise, which is the heart of all creative design, has never been surpassed; and it was desperately needed to break clear from the archaic form of warship architecture that had lingered on for a quarter of a century.

The wave of anti-imperial nationalism proved this time to be irreversible, and it was met by the old imperial powers with an uneven mix of expedient compromise and extreme violence. The crises of empire when they came were not unpredictable, like an earthquake, but their effects were seismic. The collapse of the European Asian empires between 1946 and 1954 ended centuries of empire-building in eight years.