Quotes of: Middle-ground Keyword

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

For One More Day

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it's a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn't look like you're watching someone ...

Matt McGorry

I always look for the writers and what they're creating. If it's something I don't buy, it's really hard for me to play it. To me, it has to be grounded in some sort of reality. It's really hard to go to these extreme places if they're not grounded.

Sarah Clarke

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

Emilio Estevez

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Dan Brown

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

John Green

In Egypt, I do survey work on the ground. That's really the most important part of using satellite images. You know, it helps us to find potential locations for sites, and then we get to go there on the ground and confirm what we've seen.

Sarah Parcak

Stan: We're "La Resistance," we want to save Terrance and Phillip and stop the war and stuff. The Mole: I can't help you. I'm grounded in my room for the next three days. Kyle: So are we. Our parents think we're home right now. Stan: Why are you grou...

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Bill Vaughan

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

Real Wyrd : A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World

Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.

The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era

There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.

Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

J. K. Rowling

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

Glenn Danzig

Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

Russ Carnahan

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Rahm Emanuel

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

Richard Engel