Middle Quotes

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

They say the good die young, so the bad die old. Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

I believe the middle class game is dead.

women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but in the center; not reaching down, but reaching out.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

You will go most safely in the middle.

Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

I want you to live in the middle of a move of God.

Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Middle management is a disease.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

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

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.