Middle Quotes

Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes. (Interim)

~ William S. Wilson

Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

~ Richard Due

Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb

~ Richard Due

Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.

~ Richard Due

You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

~ Richard Due

But— yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!

~ Richard Due

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority.

~ Criss Jami

Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and then being told that you have to ignore the emerging health and safety issues (This is illegal!) and not inform the workers that the system is known to be dangerous (This is illegal!). You have two options: To go to jail for illegal activities sometime in the future, or to lose your job now and have all your USA workplace rights removed for recognizing the illegal activities that your Directors want you to engage in. Welcome to the corporate America management team!

~ Steven Magee

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You're either self-appreciating or self-depreciating. There is no middle.

~ Lana M. H. Wilder

While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens – it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the ‘middle man’ as it were.

~ Christina Engela

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

~ Robert Hellenga

The Coin of Life example: Say you have a coin with heads on one side and tails on the other side. One side would mean good and the other bad, based on your interpretation or bet of which side of the coin represents a win for you. However, you can't decide the outcome and the coin flips many times throughout your life. Finding balance is flipping the coin in such a way that neither of the sides is of greater importance to you, but if the coin lands on the middle bit, you realize that the space between what you consider good or bad is so small and the probability of landing there is also incredibly small without continuous practice. However, no matter the outcome, you choose to accept the coin as it is, with both sides, and appreciate the importance of both in your life. For the coin of life has meaning and value no matter what side it lands on. It's each individual's choice whether to bet on the outcome or not, but ultimately your coin of life will be spent somehow.

~ Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.

~ Kami Garcia

I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East.

~ Steven Magee

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

~ I.m. Pei

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

~ Sarah Dessen

... you'd better go first or you'd better go last. No one will remember what come in the middle.- So what's the point of the middle than? I asked. If everyone only remembers the beginning and the end?-Without the middle, being first or last means nothing.The middle gave the rest its meaning.Like life, maybe. People were born and then they died. Everyone remembers those events. But without the life in between...

~ Lindsey Frydman

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

~ Joe Biden

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

~ Ehud Barak

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

~ Bob Hope

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

~ Gail Sheehy

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

~ Doris Day

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

~ Richard Engel

We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!

~ Olga Kurylenko

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

In politics the middle way is none at all.

~ John Adams