Quotes About Compromise

For every ounce of power you use, you need to add an ounce of conciliation. Let

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother — and they'll settle for a puppy every time.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

It must be a peace without victory…. Only a peace between equals can last.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

No one set of interests can safely be suffered to dominate the country.

We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.

Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever to compromise with it, then the American press [characterizes him] as a radical, as an extremist someone who's irresponsible, or as a rabble rouser or someone who doesn't rationalize in dealing with the problem.

Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Eso es lo más podrido de tener un novio, que te pasas la vida haciendo excepciones. Cosas que nunca te daría la gana hacer.

In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still has to take it and swallow it.

No one gets the best spot all the time—they have to compromise.

Loneliness is no excuse for compromise. Be comfortable with yourself before you choose to be with someone else just to avoid being alone.

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