Midst Quotes - Page 3

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  Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Samuel Ullman

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Time

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• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Writing, Ideas

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• Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

  Michael Novak

  Atheist, Atheism, Sacred

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• In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

  Peggy Fleming

  Events, Olympics, 1960s

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Fighting, Debate

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• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Marriage, Life Is Like, Battle

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• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Stand Alone, Universe

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• I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

  Daniel Boone

  Danger, Inconvenience

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.6, Applewood Books

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• When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Break Up, Exercise, Drug Use

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• A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, Issues, Presidential

  Dick Cheney at Vice President Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves

  Joshua Slocum

  Jumping, Wind, Sea

  Joshua Slocum (2015). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.176, Booklassic

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• Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

  James Stockdale

  Journey, Talking, Issues

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• When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Feet

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• Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

  Aesop

  Fear, Poverty, Plenty

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.28, First Avenue Editions

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• I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

  Sonny Rollins

  Suicide, Thinking, Using Resources

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• Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Hurt, Drug Use, Uprising

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Love You, Occupation, Busy

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

  Edward Zwick

  Men, Numbers, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  Evil, Trying, Prohibition

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• In the midst of life we are in debt.

  Bill Vaughan

  Debt

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• I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Tired, Talking, Work Out

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• People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Anchors, Want Something, People

  "Leader of Mormon Church Looks to Future". Interview, articles.latimes.com. March 8, 1997.

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• Having faith doesn't mean I have all the answers. It means trusting God especially in the midst of uncertainty.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Trust, Mean, Answers

  Twitter post from Dec 14, 2015

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