Quotes of: Middle-ground Keyword

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

James Buchan

Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

Ali Babacan

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

Anzia Yezierska

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

William Julius Wilson

No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.

Danish

Man is like pepper -- you only know him when you've ground him.

Nigerian

Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class ...

Knowing God

"Virtue in the middle," said the Devil when seated between two lawyers.

Danish

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innoc...

The Lincoln Lawyer

nothing knee-jerk about their politics. Two out of three of them say that abortion is “always” or “usually” morally wrong. They are far more likely than voters age thirty and over to identify themselves as politically “strictly independent....

The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream

Huma Rojo: There are people who think that children are made in a day. But it takes a long time, a very long time. That's why it's so awful to see your child's blood on the ground. A stream that flows for a minute yet costs us years. When I found my ...

All About My Mother

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

The First Circle

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

The Good Son

A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt.

The Ground Will Catch You

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Julian Baggini

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Stranger to the Ground

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

On Our Own Ground -Na

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

Mohsin Hamid

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believ...

Andy Grammer