I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Every one of us can do something about the truth. You can at least stand for the truth wherever you are. You can refuse to compromise the truth. Of course you can tell the truth. Truth could be proclaimed. Truth could be protected. There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision.

Every one of us can do something about the truth. You can at least stand for the truth wherever you are. You can refuse to compromise the truth. Of course you can tell the truth. Truth could be proclaimed. Truth could be protected. There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

Truth is the glue that holds governments together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

I would rather play 'Chiquita Banana' and have my swimming pool, than play Bach and starve.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the bigger piece.

A compromise is an agreement between two men to do what they both agree is wrong.

My husband and I went to buy a lamp. We couldn't find one that we both liked, so we had to compromise and buy one that we both hated.

Do compromises work? Have you ever tasted rose?

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising politicians-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

All government,-indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,- is founded on compromise and barter.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.