Quotes About Compromise

Niki, the name we finally gave my younger daughter, is not an abbreviation; it was a compromise I reached with her father.

He lifted his brows. If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate. With chair-throwing. Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.

ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.

Is that an apology?" "It's a Gabriel-apology. Which means that I'm acknowledging having done something that upset you and regretting that outcome, while not completely agreeing that I did something wrong or that I won't do it again.

You never know what you're missing when you run away from a conversation.

When one cannot afford a scandal, a blackmailer is an excellent bargain.

She'll take what she can get and be happy about it, because love isn't about convenience and frozen yogurt and real life. That isn't what love is about.

Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods.

We move by inches, not miles," said Gus Dewar with a smile. "That's politics.

Whoever produced the first draft would need, in all fairness, to put in some of what the other side wanted alongside his own demands. His statement of the other side's wishes then became an irreducible minimum, while all of his own demands were still up for negotiation. So the drafter always started at a disadvantage. Greg vowed to remember never to write the first draft.

Maud had feared this. Fitz was no compromiser. He believed that Britain should issue orders and the world should obey. The idea that the government might have to negotiate with others as equals was abhorrent to him. And there were distressingly many who agreed.

Women wanted a new deal, and they expected him to know, without being told, what the deal was, and to agree to it without negotiation.

War is not a picnic," Mawhinney said angrily. "If we avoid war, we can carry on having picnics.

You want a grand passion, a lifelong romance, but those exist only in poems," Genevieve said. "In real life we women settle for what we can get.

Ofrecer resistencia hubiera causado un derramamiento de sangre innecesario, y el resultado final no habría variado.

On ne tombe pas forcément amoureux de la personne qui vous conviendrait le mieux.

of compromise now. It's a fight to

Compromise is the seed that kills destiny.

The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.

It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.