Middle Ground Quotes - Page 3

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

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Compromise, Middle

  Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.19, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Home, Cities, Needs

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• 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

  Progress, Principles, Doe

  Lester R. Brown (2013). “Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth”, p.77, Routledge

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• 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

  Beautiful, Reality, Middle

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. So I think there's a middle ground that I try to strike... away from where everyone else seems ready to go, which is, setup, payoff. You know, He's afraid of water, oh, and at the end he's swimming in water - oh, my God. I hate that stuff.

  Shane Black

  Hate, Writing, Swimming

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". Interview with Harmony Korine, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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

  Ayrton Senna

  Commitment, Dedication, Effort

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• 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

  Church, Kingdoms, Matter

  "Loyalty". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 2003.

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• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  John Shadegg

  Giving, Special, Borders

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• 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

  Believe, Law, Punishment

  "Obama's CIA Pick Has Confirmation Hearings". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.

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• 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.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

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• 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

  Teenager, Taken, Eye

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• 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

  Say Anything, Awful, Trouble

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.185, Macmillan

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• Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.

  Sholem Asch

  Jesus, Son, Men

  1944 Interview with Frank S. Mead in The Christian Herald. "The Controversial Sholem Asch: An Introduction to his Fiction". Book by Ben Siegel, p. 148, 1976.

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• 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

  Team, Skateboarding, Alternatives

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

  Gabrielle Union

  Husband, Philosophy, Way

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• 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

  Memories, Gone, May

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• 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

  Hate, Cutting, Views

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.217, Penguin

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• 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

  Darkness, Zenith, Used

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

  Nathan Lane

  Middle, Seems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Alan Arkin

  Growing, Middle, Standing Still

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• I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Dark, Thinking

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• 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

  School, People, Guy

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• 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.

  Randy Alcorn

  Black And White, Army, Fog

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

  Richard Russo

  Adventure, Middle

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.8, Atlantic Books

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• 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

  Thinking, Games, People

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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