Middle Quotes
The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.
Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.
I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.
One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.
In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.
My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write this down!' She'll say, 'No! We're in a discussion!' I say, 'I know, but it's hilarious!
Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight
The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.
What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.
I'm running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.
If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.
We're working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations.
I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.
What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.
We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.
We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.
The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.
We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.
I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.