Quotes About Compromise

On Shaw's principle that "if you don't get what you like, you better like what you get

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.' 'But I don't want to argue. I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue.

Compromising with events time moves along.

The price for his intactness was incompleteness.

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage.

It was themselves he gave back to them, blurred by the compromises of how many years.

Sookie realized she really should have put her foot down when Ce Ce and James invited all their friends to bring their pets to the reception

The American political system has lost the ability for large-scale compromise, and it has lost the ability to accept some pain now for much gain later on.

America is, in its DNA, an anti-statist country. The Right comes at it by defunding government. The Left does it by encumbering it with so many rules and requirements that it has a similar dysfunctional effect. As the political theorist Samuel Huntington once explained, power in America is not divided, as is often said, but rather shared and contested, so that you need broad agreement and compromise to get anything done.

If you want, I can be on the next plane out of here and be there by morning." "No, that isn't necessary. Talking

I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.

Não se pode comer um bolo sem o perder.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.

When you reach across the aisle and open your heart and mind, you might just find that you have more in common than you think with the guy on the other side of the fence.

I don't want to fight at home. I want to be able to talk; I want to be able to rationally discuss things.

Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less likely a future argument will take place on the same subject.

We too have arguments, but we don't really have any fights. Aamir and I don't carry our fights home.

A series is filled with compromises.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical.