Middle Quotes

Melting icebergs aren't beheading Christians in the Middle East.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

If there is a strong will, there will always be a path even in the middle of precipices!

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

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

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It’s in Afghanistan, it’s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it’s in the United States.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them.

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.

Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.

From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.