Quotes About Compromise

I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you." - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM

What happened?""I f***ed Titan.""Ah.""Actually, it was more like 'Yes, please, may I have another?

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

With politics, nothing runs right ... but without politics, nothing runs. Diss Ti'wyn

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

She remembers Voltaire's warning about the perfect being the enemy of the good.

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist." ? Adrian McKinty, The Island

Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax.

convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace.

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

It seems as if, in making a marriage, either the individual or the interest of the species must come off badly.