Quotes About Compromise

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.

He wanted his little slice of happiness so much that he sacrificed the whole pig for a slice of ham.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

It is the interaction of the two styles - his withdrawal and her insistence that he tell her what she did wrong - that is devastating to both.

Smashing heads does not open minds.

A woman will be inclined to repeat a request that doesn't get a response because she is convinced that her husband would do what she asks, if he only understood that she really wants him to do it. But a man who wants to avoid feeling that he is following orders may instinctively wait before doing what she asked, in order to imagine that he is doing it of his own free will.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

When we turn to sin, whatever it is—lying, gossiping, sexual immorality—we are doing it because we are trying to solve a problem.

There's a honey-do-list for you on your nightstand in case you get to feeling like I managed just fine without you. And a wish list of movies I want to see, and books I'd like you to buy me." She bit her lip. "Actually I bought most of the books and called them gifts, so maybe you should give me back that list to update once more.

Relationships are two layers of conversations. Adapting and also speaking your mind.

Pilih badan kering dan kantong juga kering atau badan basah dan kantong ikut basah?

Mungkin itu salah satu alasan kenapa saya tidak pernah mau serius berkomitmen. Kompromi di pekerjaan bisa dihitung harganya. Tapi, untuk urusan hati, saya pikir siapapun setuju harganya tidak ternilai.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

By following the concept of 'one country, two systems,' you don't swallow me up nor I you.

He cupped her face, his eyes mingling with hers. "Stay," he whispered. "Please." She could deny him nothing when he looked at her that way. When he spoke to her that way. They'd stay for a week. Just one more week. What would it hurt?

but sometimes you have to fit into life, or waste a lot of time and energy wishing it would fit in with you.

He hadn't pushed her about whatever she was hiding because he damn well knew that arguing with a woman was like trying to read the terms of agreement on the computer. Eventually, he always ended up ignoring everything else and just clicking I AGREE.

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.