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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.”

    Home   Cities   Needs  
  • The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.

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

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.

    "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 18, 1990.
  • 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.

  • A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing "same-sex marriage"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.

    "How We Got to the Supreme Court" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.
  • 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.

    "Former Disney chief Eisner touts benefits of sharing". Reuters interview, www.reuters.com. September 26, 2010.
  • 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.

    "Daschle: 'Grateful for every moment", www.cnn.com. November 19, 2004.
  • With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

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

    Race   Slavery   Remember  
    Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.790, Best Books on
  • 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.

    "Loyalty". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 2003.
  • To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.

    "Q&A-Tennis-Federer's heart is in South Africa". Interview with Xola Potelwa, www.reuters.com. February 22, 2013.
  • I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

  • 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.

    Struggle   Blue   Two  
  • 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.

    Angel   Devil   Sides  
    Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.10, Vintage
  • There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

    Twilight   Science   Men  
    The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1963)
  • 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.

  • People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

    Hate   People   Middle  
  • 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 (2013). “Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth”, p.77, Routledge
  • Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

  • As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It's not flip.

    "Read Playboy … for the Interviews". Interview with David Sheff, www.slate.com. October 1995.
  • Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

    Money   Soul   Poverty  
  • Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.

    Thinking   Impact   Hands  
    Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional
  • We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while we practice tolerance and respect for beliefs and ideas different from our own and for the people who hold them.

    War   Errors   Practice  
  • All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground.

    Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. January 20, 2011.
  • 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.

    Fluffy   Way   Helping  
    "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Hate   Cutting   Views  
    Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.217, Penguin
  • There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

    "Javier Bardem: Sinister? Me?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.
  • I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

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