#Compromise

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

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]"

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."

"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy"

"When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'"

"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?"

"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."

"My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise."

"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."

"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?"

"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."

"You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction."

"Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us."

"Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none."