Middle ground Quotes

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

— Caroline Stevermer

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

— Jose Rizal

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me

— Nathan Lane

“The uncharming qualities of capitalism are its middle ground.”

— Tony Judt

There is a middle ground in things.

— Horace

“There’s a big middle ground between pedestal and porn.”

— Melanie Harlow

We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be…

— Greg Gutfeld

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

— Steve McConnell

Everything you say to a friend will either build them up or tear them down; there is no middle ground.

— Rachel Scott

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.

— Kim Ki-duk

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

“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

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

— Richard Russo

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

— Dave Navarro

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good…

— Mike Davidson

“We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery.…

— Carol Mason

On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either…

— Frederic Tuten

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“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

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness…

— Paula Cole

During a time of surplus, a time of peace before 2001, it was much easier to try and find middle ground. We…

— Dan Coats

“Our strength, in other words, has rested in our determination to reject simplistic absolutes and to redefine and revitalize a productive middle…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“For this we must believe: that the mind is never seriously aroused to desire and ponder the life to come unless it…

— John Calvin

Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it…

— Price Pritchett

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the…

— Callan McAuliffe

“If you are ready to face the fears, take the steps, do the work, be more than you thought you ever could,…

— Loren Weisman

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in…

— Nicholas Sparks

When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great…

— Marya Hornbacher

“So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." "I see," she said. "Well, I'd…

— Sarah Dessen

“I hope I’m being clear, I didn’t say I hate feminists, that would be weird. I said I hate feminist. I’m talking…

— Joss Whedon

“What happens if you lose?" Jeremy pressed. "I don't see it as winning or losing. I'm just looking for a middle ground,"…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Oftentimes it’s easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason.…

— Terry Goodkind

“The importance of obtaining and following the guidance of the Spirit cannot be overemphasized, for it is the issue which separates the…

— Marion G. Romney

“Novels, says Sartre, are not life, but they owe our power upon us, as upon himself as an infant, to the fact…

— Frank Kermode

“What may be learned from the rebuttals made by the defendants in New Jersey and from the protests that were sparked by…

— Jonathan Kozol

“The pre-Thatcher state had functioned on the understanding that there was such a thing as society. Governments on both sides of the…

— J.M.R. Higgs

As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit…

— Paul Scholes

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be…

— Krista Tippett