Quotes about Compromise

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.

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.

Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?

well, blessed are the peacemakers, especially the fighting peacemakers

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.