Quotes About Compromise

I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?

If things go badly for me tonight, I want you to stay with Mr. Wynter; he will pay you a decent wage." "Will he make me bathe?" "No, he will debate the matter with you until you decide to wash." "Ah. One of those.

Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life's comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves.

We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.

There can be no compromise, no truce," the general told Allen then. "I shall advance. I shall take the capital. I will save Spain from marxism at whatever cost." "That means," Allen asked, for clarification, "that you will have to shoot half Spain?" Franco smiled. "I said whatever the cost." The Spanish Civil War had begun.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

c'est qu'après la mort du « compromis historique » à l'italienne, plus aucune opportunité ne s'est présentée pour que la guerre froide se termine par un « match nul ». La défaite du « camp socialiste » était en train de devenir inéluctable. Aujourd'hui, sans mérite, nous le savons ; en 1978, les Soviétiques ne le savaient pas.

We argue, but we never change each other's minds. We only get farther apart.

I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.

When you get to that point where you notice a person's faults, you've got to decide if you can live with them or can't live without them.

Yeah, but I didn't like him and you still did it!

She'll take anything. Even the network whose name we don't speak, if you know what I mean.

Her desire for him had been so great that she had been willing to accept a kind of lumpy half-love, flawed, temporal, and incomplete.

She had forgotten the only trick her mother had taught her about marriage: the more impractical your husband's ideas are, the more you get behind them.

Don't bother fighting with your husband over something he's never actually going to do. He'll give up on his own eventually, and then you don't have to be the bad guy.

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.

Our staunch ideals of how we will raise our children get significantly reshaped by those very kids once they're here in the world running us ragged, wearing down our defenses, leaving us no choice but to embark on that slippery slope and say, "Just this once!" to stop the whining.

for the most part, my peers, like me, have embarked on the eternal compromise that is dealing with a toddler. We are no longer inexperienced, we are no longer naively confident that our superb parenting skills will produce the perfectly well-behaved mini-adult, we are willing to admit that for the most part we simply want to get through the day. We have been broken in. So we pick our battles.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.