Quotes About Compromise

We were looking for an acceptable compromise.

A Lutsk ti ho comprato dei libri, le disse Yankel chiudendo la porta a prima sera, chiudendo fuori il resto del mondo. Non possiamo permetterceli, ribatté lei afferrando la borsa pesante. Domani dovrò restituirli. Non possiamo permetterci neanche di non averli. Qual è la cosa che possiamo permetterci di meno: averli o non averli? A mio parere, perdiamo in ogni caso. Meglio perdere con i libri.

The point of eating these special foods with those special people at those special times was that we were being deliberate, separating those meals out from the others. Adding another layer of deliberateness has been enriching. I'm all for compromising tradition for a good cause, but perhaps in these situations, tradition wasn't compromised so much as fulfilled.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.

There never was a war between religion and empirical science, but there is a war between religion and

Las parejas se separan por lo mismo que se juntan

aceptar que el otro es quien es no signifique que nos guste o que estemos de acuerdo; significa reconocer que así son las cosas y resistir la tentación de tratar de cambiar al otro o imponer nuestro criterio.

Algunas diferencias son irreconciliables y deben ser aceptadas así. Uno puede amar y respetar a su compañero y aprender a aceptar la realidad existencial de que no todos los problemas se pueden resolver. El

Si para estar con otro yo tengo que renunciar a ser yo mismo, la cosa no va a funcionar.

un pájaro y un pez pueden enamorarse y hasta casarse, pero ¿dónde harían el nido?

The notion of art as a compromise is a simplification, for no one knows entirely what he is doing. A writer can conceive a fable, Kipling acknowledged, without grasping its moral. He must be true to his imagination, and not to the mere ephemeral circumstances of a supposed 'reality'.

El concepto de arte comprometido es una ingenuidad porque nadie sabe del todo lo que ejecuta. (The notion of art as a compromise is a simplification, for no one knows entirely what they are doing.)

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

He said it with the air of a man who always demands the best, and then settles for what he can get.

The Bill of Rights is the United States. The United States is the Bill of Rights. Compromise the Bill of Rights and you dissolve the very foundation upon which the Union stands.

In political situations, we should be careful not to assume "everyone is wrong" and "just compromise.

But the instrument she picked up and insisted on playing was this beautiful little quarter-size violin, setup for the left hand. They tried to move her to a right-hand instrument, and she absolutely refused. So Jill and her mother reached a compromise of sorts. Jill would play the violin, which her mother desperately wanted her to do, but she would play on the left-hand instrument.

The realization of dreams, like every battle for freedom, has always required compromise to one degree or another. When the result of a concession, however, is the mutilation of your soul or the cancellation of someone else's future, then it may be said the desired goal was corrupted or destroyed rather than attained.

For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.