Top 1200 Middle Ground Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

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

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

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.

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

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.”

The Sydney Cricket Ground is my favourite ground in the world, my home ground, and growing up in the bush all I wanted was to play at the SCG.

What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

There is a middle ground in things.

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.

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

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.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or you're against it. The real world offers no middle ground.

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

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.

I think the public is very reluctant to get involved in more foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. And they understand, implicitly, that we go to war in the Middle East because of oil. And if we don't want to go to war in the Middle East, then we have to do something about the oil problem. And I think that view is gaining ground in the U.S.

I'm not a political person. I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward.

If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

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.

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

All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground.

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

We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

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

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.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

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.

With 'Snowtown,' you either love it or you hate it; there's no middle ground. So I've come to understand and appreciate that's the kind of film that it is.

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

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

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

I come from a middle-class South Indian family, and we speak Tulu at home. I never led a lavish life, and I have my feet on the ground.

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.

We know that if you have a good game, you are God, and if you misplace five passes in a row, they want to kick you out of Madrid. You have to find the middle ground.

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.

People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight.

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

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

At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now.

Myself, and all coaches, need to have courage, because we are so exposed. When we win, we're the best. When we lose, we're stupid. We must find a middle ground.

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.

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

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

I dont 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.

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

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

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.

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

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.