Quotes About Compromise

we can allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good.

But you're happy?' 'Yeah? I think I am. Are you?' 'Happier. Happyish.' 'Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

She had got rid of his black bedsheets, the beer mats, secretly culled his underpants and there were fewer of his famous 'Summer Roasts', but even so, she was reaching the limits of how much it's possible to change a man.

We all make our deals with life. We do it invisibly, sometimes unconsciously, and alone, without benefit of collective bargaining, We come to terms.

It was built in 1912 and rebuilt in 1934, and offers, as do most Boston artifacts, a compromise between Man's Euclidean determinations and Nature's beguiling irregularities.

a few must die so the rest can live in peace, well, such is the ugly but unavoidable cost of living in a civilized society. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

In his documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore quotes a well-known twentieth-century American journalist, Upton Sinclair: "It's difficult to get someone to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Meanwhile, people relinquish their rights readily and eagerly in a quest for peace with religious fanatics that will never be realized.

Kennedy then warned of "the siren temptation of those with seemingly swift and easy answers on the far right and the far left." It

Sure, Satan would do her favors now and then, but there's always a catch with the Devil.

Will said, "Molech, Zoey will not negotiate with you if you kill her mother. This is actually true of most people you'll encounter in a business setting.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

I soon discovered that the greater part of a day in Old State was devoted to meetings. Where the boundaries of jurisdiction were fuzzy or overlapping, meetings became inevitable. Most questions affected a number of functional and geographic divisions...These meetings gave the illusion of action, but often frustrated it by attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable. What was most often needed was not compromise but decision.

Never, under any circumstances, argue with a tired woman. She is always right.

The point is, Dean was not and is not nor will he ever be the ideal husband... he gives the minimum amount.

In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.

Veronica to Stoker: "Does this mean you will stop torturing me by displaying yourself in various states of undress?

because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

Indiscretions that would only burden a wife. He was frequently unfaithful, and that was something I was perfectly happy to accept." "Happy!" I exclaimed. I could not imagine any woman being content to have the man she loved warming another's bed.

I gave it to him because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

She not only turned a blind eye to his philandering, she befriended the women he bedded!

it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.