Quotes About Compromise

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

Some teachers think they are preparing their students for life by teaching them that the choices they have are limited. Thus the real lesson they teach is compromise: Learn to live with what you don't really like because you will have plenty of that.

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

If you limit your choice to only what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself form what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise.

Women, in his experience, often expected you to understand that it was a measure of how much they loved you that they tried their damnedest to change you.

A lot of men find it hard to hear how well their other halves get on with other men.

the time he spent on Saturday morning, crafting a response to Al's latest text message on the subject. He finally chose brevity over further argument: Haven't changed my mind, but no hard feelings or bitterness this end. Hope all goes well & let's get a beer when you're next in town.

You can't just ignore me and cut me off and refuse all compromises. I can't live like this.

her activism had mostly taken the form of enthusiastic exhibitionism. Not for Leda the tedious toil of door-to-door canvassing, the difficult business of compromise, or the painstaking work structural change entailed. Never a deep or critical thinker, she'd been a sucker for what Strike thought of as intellectual charlatans.

If nobody is happy, then it's an equitable merger. —Maxim of airline seniority list arbitration

The ideological gap between the parties has indeed widened, and party discipline has increased. But the source of the widening gap is that Democrats have moved moderately to the center, while Republicans have moved to the far right. And the main source of deadlock is that Republicans have decided to refuse to compromise with Democrats, the better to destroy both Democrats and effective government.

In Sergeant McCaustic I had found my personal hair shirt. We had come to an understanding within a day or two; that is, we had agreed that we were incompatible.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Progress in America historically has come from thinkers and ideologues on both the left and the right, but the best of those ideas have been enacted into law through compromise. Now moderation is equated with lacking principles, and compromise with "selling out.