“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
“Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.”
From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486482103: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape and Attacks by Inanimate Objects, Paul Dickson, Courier Corporation (2013), p. 223
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Robert E. Machol (1917–1998) American systems engineer
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“Nothing in this universe occurs by accident.”
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Source: Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Vol. 1
“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928–1979) Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan
Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 37.
Context: This is not a letter on Pakistan. If it were, I could have written a small book entitled "Glimpses of Pakistan's history". Time does not permit it. The nation is gripped in her worst crisis, standing in the middle of the road between survival and disintegration. Since the birth of Pakistan, crisis has followed crisis in rapid escalation. Millions of lives were sacrificed to create this country. Pakistan is said to be the dream of Mohammad Iqbal and the creation of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-e-Azam. Was anything wrong with the dream or with the one who made the dream come true? Opinions have differed and continue to differ. The next few years will most probably decide the issue, perhaps once and for all, and not without bloodshed. This process is not inevitable but the present policies of the ruling junta are driving this country towards a sad inevitability
“She's the perfect good girl in the middle of the road.”
Katie Melua (1984) British singer-songwriter
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Context: [Melua] makes music that's easy on the ear and even easier on the brain. She's the perfect good girl in the middle of the road. I'm not keen to make things too easy for anyone.
“There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.”
Jim Hightower (1943) Texas author and liberal political activist
There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (1998)
