Middle Quotes

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

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

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

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.

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

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

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.

Cannabis always made me paranoid; I felt like people were watching me. And now I'm sober, and I've got this talk show in the middle of the night on CBS, and I now know that no one is watching me.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

You can only sleep your way to the middle; you have to claw your way to the top.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

Jordan Henderson is a player who likes to do his business in the middle of the park.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.