Middle Of The Road Quotes

• The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Gutters, Compromise, Resolution

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• I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

  Harold Wilson

  Middle, Messy, Muddle

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• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, Two Sides, Decision

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• The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Lying

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• It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing. That path is paved with safe lives, middle of the road monotony, and little chance of failure. But where's the fun in being like everyone else out there?

  Chris Guillebeau

  Lonely, Fun, Safe

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• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

  George P. Shultz

  Inspirational, Travel, Commitment

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• Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Compromise, Middle, Walks

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• People who stand in the "middle-of-the-road" get run over.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, People, Middle

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• As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

  Ann Coulter

  Crazy, Middle, Concerned

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.82, Crown Forum

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• The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

  Anton Newcombe

  Animal, Dumb, Middle

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• The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Poor, Middle

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• The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

  Jim Hightower

  Yellow, Political, Lines

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• Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Remember, Middle, Worst

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.108, Fulcrum Publishing

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• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Black And White, People, Gutters

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• We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  See Hightower 2

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• I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

  Tony Benn

  Funny, Strong, Humor

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• People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

  Debbie Macomber

  People, Miracle, Church

  Debbie Macomber (2015). “Call Me Mrs. Miracle: The Christmas Basket”, p.110, MIRA

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

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Travel, Middle, Huge

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• It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

  Danny DeVito

  Fun, Thinking, Safe

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

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• Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Taken, Perfect, Care

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• If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.

  Charlie Albright

  Winning, Unique, Play

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• Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken, while taking the ordinary, everyday, middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken.

  Whiting Williams

  Leadership, Taken, Everyday

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• Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

  Reynolds Price

  Hurt, Heart, Cells

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• Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

  John Ortberg

  Procrastination, Safety, Way

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• Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Country, Yellow, People

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