No Middle Ground Quotes

#1. At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy. The soul either sleeps in blessed ignorance of such an hour or gazes about itself in utter despair. There is no middle ground

Stephen King

#2. We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

Leon Panetta

#3. With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

Ayrton Senna

#4. I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

Dave Navarro

#5. If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

Lester R. Brown

#6. The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

Bill Johnson

#7. They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy

Alice Munro

#8. There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Javier Bardem

#9. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

George R R Martin

#10. He that is not with me is against me (Mat 12:30). If you are not gathering, then you are scattering. If you are not walking in light, then you are walking in darkness! There is no neutral position; there is no middle ground!

Ken Ham

#11. There's no middle ground in modern movies; you either save a kingdom and marry a princess or you are shot to death by assassins hired by the evil corporation that you are trying to bring to justice in the courtroom of a corrupt judge.

Dean Koontz

#12. Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

Dustin Diamond

#13. The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

Hugh MacLennan

#14. You were either all in or all out. It is an extremist religion. There is no middle ground. And there within its structure lies the danger.

Leah Remini

#15. Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.

John Dos Passos

#16. We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while we practice tolerance and respect for beliefs and ideas different from our own and for the people who hold them.

Dallin H. Oaks

#17. In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

Steve McConnell

#18. Maybe you held back for too long and then you had to explode. Maybe there was no middle ground let. Sometimes we need to get violent with out words because no one is listening otherwise.

Matthew Quick

#19. When you play the games of thrones, you win or die. There is no middle ground.

George R R Martin

#20. The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Saul Alinsky

#21. Each of us has to face the matter - either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#22. Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out, or you're about to die. There's no middle ground with you. You might want to work on that.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

#24. One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.

Caroline Stevermer

#25. It was war times, and you had to take a side: good or bad. There was no middle ground

Yunnuen Gonzalez

#26. I believe we're headed to an Elijah/Jezebel showdown on the Earth, not just in America but all over the globe, and the main warriors will be the prophets of Baal versus the prophets of God, and there will be no middle ground.

Lou Engle

#27. Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Alan Arkin

#28. When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.

Marya Hornbacher

#29. Emember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

James A. Garfield

#30. They seemed to be of that age when things were either one or the other, with no middle ground.

Kate Griffin

#31. We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#32. I'm a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There's no middle ground, only madness and sadness.

Fennel Hudson

#33. At that point the enemies saw clear. You may accept the lofty claims of Jesus. You may take Him as very God. Or else you must reject Him as a miserable, deluded enthusiast. There is really no middle ground. Jesus refuses to be pressed into the mould of a mere religious teacher.

J. Gresham Machen

#34. I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

Haruki Murakami

#35. People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

Ace Frehley

#36. An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

Anton Chekhov

#37. The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground

Patrick Kingsley

#38. In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,
the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

James A. Garfield

#39. Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible implosion is coming. There is no more middle ground. It is one or the other.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#40. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

Joss Whedon

#41. There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

Yitzhak Rabin

#42. That's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere between Sluejow, Wygwizdow, and Solec time had ground to a halt or simply evaporated or melted like a dream and no longer separated us from our childhood.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#43. There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

Oliver North

#44. The new ground that you form in your living is a new self, a new self that isn't at all of the middle ground, a lived-in self that has no need of middle ground. That new self makes unseen reality within seen.

John De Ruiter

#45. There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many,

Benjamin Graham