The-18 month period is a compromise between the feeling that two years is a little bit too long for non-contested cases and that one year seems a little bit short to reflect on matters properly.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I am hoping and praying they open school (on time), ... You have to try and compromise and work together, but don't let the kids suffer.

Physicians can be reassured that providing both these drugs at the same time does not compromise patient outcomes.

She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.