Top 1200 Middle Ground Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

People should elect those leaders who have their ears to the ground.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

The fact is, is that Donald Trump knows that as he rifles money from the working and middle classes up to the super rich, he has to sow division among working people, because if working people and middle-class people really take a look at his economic policy, they will come together, and they will stop it. So, what he has to do is to promote racism - hate the Muslims, hate the Latinos, hate the blacks, you know, have male - men and women at each other's throats, you know, make sure we repress the trans people.

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.

[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.” Ella fluttered to the ground and began preening her feathers. “Ella found a dog,” she announced. “A large dog. And a Cyclops.” Was she blushing? Before Percy could decide, his black mastiff pounced on him, knocking Percy to the ground and barking so loudly that even Arion backed up. “Hey, Mrs. O'Leary,” Percy said. “Yeah, I love you, too, girl. Good dog.” Hazel squeaked. “You have a hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary?” “Long story.

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.

We fall, but we get up because the ground is no place for a champion.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

I'm convinced democracy will grow from the ground up, from the community.

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.

I don't think I appear very cool to people who observe me on the ground.

I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.

Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the Middle East want to live in a free society. I believe mothers and fathers want to raise their children in a free and peaceful world. I believe all these things, because freedom is not America's gift to the world, freedom is the almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.

Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle class jobs lost during the correction: six million. Middle class jobs recovered: one million. So therefore we're up 16 percent on the jobs that were lost. These are only born-again jobs. We don't really have any new jobs, and there's a massive speculative frenzy going on in Wall Street that is disconnected from the real economy.

To not run a venture into the ground, entrepreneurs need to learn what it takes to succeed.

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

If I have never mourned over my waywardness, then I have no solid ground for rejoicing.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!

Sometimes, I need to be high off the ground to keep grounded.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind.

so people really do tear out their hair and beat the ground with their fists

Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.

Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isn’t straight, anyone who isn’t male, anyone who isn’t white, anyone who isn’t upper middle class knows that stuff doesn’t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isn’t osmosis. And so we act as if it’s this passive thing, but yet that’s not the case.

One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

Often fear is the same emotion as excitement. It means you are breaking ground.

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.