Quotes About Compromise

This shouldn't be a my-party-your-party exercise. We should work together with one nonpartisan staff. The

a little here, bends a little there. And far too often

I have always believed in not compromising the form the drama takes by underestimating what its natural potential offers.

Je reste optimiste tout en me préparant au pire, maman, ça te semble bien comme compromis ?

Being able to let go of a righteous position is a key to creating partnership.

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.

When people are afraid they will give up almost anything for the illusion of safety.

And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?

Brian knows the affair is wrong. He's known from the moment Wendy first undressed in his office. But with her hot, wet tongue in his ear, and her taut, pink nipples straining against his starched white shirt, and with Mick Jagger's strident voice squawking about satisfaction on the tiny transistor radio, Brian's body refuses to obey. Instead of shoving Wendy out the door, he shoves her onto the unmade bed.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

There might be bits and pieces of us that I don't like or that drive me up the wall, but at the end of the say, it's who we are. I'm going to make the best of what we have.

Theoretically, politics was about bridging divides. Realistically, it was mostly every man (and woman) for themselves.

No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.

bad things for good reasons

I will give you three days, if the gates are not opened on these revised terms, I shall attack. And then there shall be no terms of any kind."

He'd saved her life and killed her trust. He'd thought it a fair trade, at the time.

Our people have said that for any marriage to work, one party has to be a fool

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

Reaching compromise does not signal weakness, but rather is a sign of strength. The ability to compromise is the backbone of democracy.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.