Middle Quotes
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.
Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.
Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.
I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.
Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.
I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.
Chicago is like a warzone. Chicago is worse than some of the people that you report, in some of the places that you report about every night, in the Middle East.
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.
I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.
I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.
I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.
I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.
What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.
A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.
Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.
All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.
What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions in the middle of the night.
I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels.
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.