Quotes About Compromise

It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic.

Whoa, Dimitri," I said, tossing my bag on the floor. "I realize this is actually a current hit in Eastern Europe right now, but do you think we could maybe listen to something that wasn't recorded before I was born?" Only his eyes flicked toward me; the rest of his posture remained the same. "What does it matter to you? I'm the one who's going to be listening to it. You'll be outside running.

I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups

If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I'd let you.

Darling" she said with a small laugh "Love doesn't have anything to do with this." "It has very thing to do with it!" I exclaimed.

We take what what we can get.

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in Him -barely- as long as He let me sleep in on Sundays.

Why does it have to be so cut-and-dried? In your view, I either have to hate them or be in league with them. There's a middle ground, you know. I can still be loyal to the Alchemists and on friendly terms with vampires and dhampirs.

So, what's this mean exactly?" he asked."You finally come around, and now you're going to just end things because of her?" "Kissing you isn't exactly 'coming around.'" He gave me a long, level look. "There was a lot more than kissing, Miss 'I'm a Quick Study.

There are good and bad sides to everything. We just have to balance them as best we can.

When it came to the strong-willed women in my life, I found it was sometimes easiest to nod and agree with whatever they dictated was best.

It was another horrible yet almost laughable moment. Cupcakes and birthday car sex had been my undoing.

Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don't give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake.

Getting a paycheck for doing that thing you love may actually ruin it.

That campaign raises, in fact, one of the greatest issues invoked by the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson; the relationship between means and ends. Many of the ends of Lyndon Johnson's life, civil rights, in particular, perhaps, but others too, were noble. Heroic advances in the cause of social justice....Those noble ends would not have been possible without the means, far from noble, that brought Johnson to power...To what extent are ends inseparable from means?

Quietly, dispassionately, Russell would make sure the senator understood not only the reasons why he should take the same position on the bill that Russell was taking, but the reasons why he should take an opposing position.

He repeated his plea that they be fair and open-minded, open to reason and compromise, and praised them for being so reasonable and open-minded thus far—which of course made it harder for them to act otherwise

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

anyone who "won" a family argument had in fact lost it.

If i can stay with my conflicting impulses long enough, the two opposing forces will teach each other something and produce an insight that serves them both. This is not a compromise but a depth of understanding that puts my life in perspective and allows me to know with certainty what I should do. That certainty is one of the most precious qualities known to human kind.

Are you trying to compromise my manhood?" I said. "Oh, yeah, that," she said. "Now and then I forget.

I could speak to her, but she'd continue to do what she wants, and I'd look ineffectual. My approach is to endorse everything she does.

Why did Colinski want the house?" "Who knows? A place to hide, cut dope, stash cash, party. Stupid, I said, how are you going to clean up, being involved with a man like this, but the Great Colinski had spoken." "Jacobi and Juan were both addicts. Did Juan trade drugs for the house?" "Yes! This was Colinski's brilliant idea." "Do