Quotes About Compromise

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Uno empieza siendo idealista, moralmente fuerte, si se quiere, pero entonces la ropa de tu fuerza moral se va desgastando poco a poco hasta que ya no puedes más y haces cosas que nunca pensaste que harías, o no haces cosas que siempre pensaste que harías.

The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They're done by compromised people doing the best they can.

prefer married women and expensive whores. You have a nice meal, a few laughs, a good fuck, and then you each go back to your own lives. It's better that way." So

Perhaps we're not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils.

Then know," Caro said, "that you have to accept both sides of this thing. Enjoy the rewards, accept the losses, do the terrible things you sometimes have to do. Never shed blood you don't have to, but when you have to, harden your heart and do it.

He feels ashamed, wretched, coming to the realization that when push comes to shove, when the terrible reality is at hand, he really would have them do it to someone else rather than himself

You start by being idealistic, morally strong if you will, but then the rock of your moral strength is eroded, bit by bit, until you're, well, exhausted, and you do things that you never thought you would. Or you do things that you always feared you would.

Por esas razones —dice Bernie—, me opongo al pacto que has hecho con Vecchio y te insto encarecidamente a que reflexiones. Danny Ryan, tú eres un hombre sensato. —Solo será esta vez —dice Danny. —El alma no se alquila. Solo se vende.

An individualist—a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own—may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present.

I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

When dealing with men, every woman is a consummate actress.

It's a known fact in life that you can't have everything