Top 100 Quotes About Middle Ground
#1. Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In
Hope Edelman
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.
Mike Quigley
#7. I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
Krista Tippett
#9. The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#11. It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.
Haruki Murakami
#12. I guess the more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. So close and yet so far.
Robin Benway
#13. 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
#14. On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.
Val McDermid
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.
Nicholas Sparks
#18. There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
Michael Eisner
#19. 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
#20. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.
Joss Whedon
#21. Why does it have to be so cut-and-dried? In your view, I either have to hate them or be in league with them. There's a middle ground, you know. I can still be loyal to the Alchemists and on friendly terms with vampires and dhampirs.
Richelle Mead
#22. I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.
Ronnie Wood
#23. We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.
Greg Gutfeld
#24. That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.
Eric Fellner
#25. Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.
There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.
Dani Harper
#26. In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.
Edward Gibbon
#27. There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
Nathan Lane
#28. Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
#29. I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
Callan McAuliffe
#30. I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.
Leonard Ravenhill
#32. It was war times, and you had to take a side: good or bad. There was no middle ground
Yunnuen Gonzalez
#33. 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
#34. What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
Gavin Hood
#35. 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
#36. Trying to overcorrect is a great way to find middle ground. In order for me to speak the right amount in a meeting, I have to feel as if I am saying very little.
Sheryl Sandberg
#37. Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels.
Henry Blodget
#38. Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
Alan Arkin
#39. People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
Ace Frehley
#40. People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
Margaret Keane
#41. The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#42. There must be some middle ground between broken hearts and pure standoffishness.
Kathleen Kimmel
#43. I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.
Jonathan LaPaglia
#47. So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections.
Simon Blackburn
#48. Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.
Zack Snyder
#49. You are four years old. You have to shit in the toilet. This is not one of those negotiations where we'll go back and forth and find a middle ground. This ends with you shitting in a toilet.
Justin Halpern
#50. I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.
Kim Ki-duk
#51. Emember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.
James A. Garfield
#52. They seemed to be of that age when things were either one or the other, with no middle ground.
Kate Griffin
#53. I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.
Iwan Rheon
#54. 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
#55. There were problems with having a reputation like his. Folks either wanted your hide or wanted you to save theirs. There was never any happy, indifferent middle ground.
Gillian Bronte Adams
#56. (Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.
Edward Feser
#57. 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
#58. The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough.
Robin Benway
#59. 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
#60. There's a big middle ground between pedestal and porn.
Melanie Harlow
#61. When you play the games of thrones, you win or die. There is no middle ground.
George R R Martin
#62. 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
#63. It wasn't here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me.
David Joy
#64. It is the sensitive people in any organization that become aware of the need to discover the acceptable "middle" ground between "profit only" and "people only" and act accordingly.
Herman L Glaess
#65. Healthy self-care means finding fulfillment so that you have energy, love, and empathy for others. Finding the middle ground means realizing that it is not an either-or situation - you are neither full of self nor drained of self.
Karyl McBride
#66. There is a middle ground in things.
Horace
#67. 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
#68. Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis Morissette
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.
Michelle Shocked
#72. With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.
Ayrton Senna
#73. All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground.
Kristen Schaal
#74. But ultimately we attempted to find some middle ground because at the end of the day we love each other in spite of all our many and vast differences.
Melanie Shankle
#75. Only the middle ground of this wicked world mattered, the vast gap that stretched between, and those who were born with enough grit to brave it.
David Joy
#76. On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.
Gilbert Sorrentino
#77. I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.
Dave Navarro
#78. 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
#79. You can choose to listen to one end of the spectrum or the other on Twitter, just like you can on television. But hopefully what we've done is given a voice to that broad middle ground.
Dick Costolo
#80. I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
Austan Goolsbee
#81. The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.
Bill Johnson
#82. To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.
DJ Quik
#83. The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
Paula Cole
#84. I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.
Cheryl Cole
#85. Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.
Pamela Moore
#86. Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?
Richard Russo
#87. They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy
Alice Munro
#88. There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
Javier Bardem
#89. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
George R R Martin
#90. I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.
Leonor Varela
#91. Dreema and you disagree. She cottons to Richmond, but you can't be weaned off Pelham. So I offer you a fair middle ground: relocate to northern Virginia. She transfers to the state morgue on Braddock Road, and you get to stay near your old beat.
Ed Lynskey
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.
Dustin Diamond
#95. The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.
Susan Branch
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.
John Dos Passos
#99. The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.
Ann Lauterbach
#100. We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word "home."
William Cronon
