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Quotes about Compromise

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.
- Ellen Glasgow
The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.
- G Campbell Morgan
Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
- Andrew Carnegie
I'm a good woman for a bad man.
- Mae West
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
- AW Tozer
He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.
- Ulysses S. Grant
How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.
- Milan Kundera
Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?
- Candace Bushnell
well, blessed are the peacemakers, especially the fighting peacemakers
- Herman Melville
Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.
- Aung San Suu Kyi