Quotes About Compromise

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

The normal perception is that you expect your partner to change for you. But you have to remember that you have married the other person because of the way he or she is.

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.

I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can't have ideas of our own, we have to have those of the editor; and even the editor doesn't have the right to think with his own head, because when he's sent for by the board of directors he has to stifle his own views, if he has any, and support those of the shareholders.

The art of wise administration consist in making certain concessions and granting that which will please the people, while demanding in return an obedience and cooperation which will benefit the whole community. p235-236

Holger didn't feel like an orgy, but had no way to refuse.

Uzun süreli ili?kilerini mükemmel bulan çok az çift vard?r; birbirlerini idare ederler. ?li?kide uyan taraf vard?r-ama elbette bu a?k de?il, olsa olsa onu hat?rlamakt?r; ba?ka bir deyi?le: Bu bir ortakl?kt?r!

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

Overconfidence that the other side will give you what you want can be a havoc negotiation error.

You have to remember, dear interlocutors, and never forget: that the ultimate goal of negotiating is convergence- not unconditional surrender.

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

what you compromise to keep, you lose.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

you can tell how well a marriage is working by counting the bite marks on each partner's tongue.