Marianne Moore Quotes

I feel, in my life, in any situation I've been in, I've always been sort of in the middle.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

I'm always a little happier if the court stays somewhat in the center.

We shouldn’t take sides. We have two bad sides to take a choice between.

If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all.

The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

You learn not to get attached to one side .... You take both sides.

A liberal is a man who's too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

it is no easy task to find the middle.

Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.

Extremes can be right on no side.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

People live in the middle. I think everyone does. Good is on one side, bad is on the other side, and we live in the middle.

The greatest compliment is I am accused of being a Dem leftie and a Republican righty. I am a pragmatist. I call it as I see it.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.