Quotes About Compromise

Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

I experienced first-hand the degeneration of the poldermodel in full force.

The White House - we continue to believe that Democrats and Republicans should do what they have done 80 times, which is to raise the debt limit, and that is what we are working toward.

But until Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, liberal activists and conservative activists decide division is no longer the most valuable unit of currency, there will be no solutions of any kind.

I will work with whoever is leader of the DUP.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.

My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.

My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.

It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.

Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.