Middle Quotes - Page 24

• I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Years, Covering, World

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• In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Country, Middle East, Different

  "Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy". news.bbc.co.uk. March 24, 2006.

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• I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Teaching, Gears, Exhausted

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• If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a good thing. But I know where I'm at. But, you know, you don't have to call me by my character's name for months on end. Football taught me that, because you can go from being best friends to having to play that person on another team, you have to be able to turn that on and off. You need to find that middle ground.

  Terry Crews

  Football, Team, Character

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

  Gail Sheehy

  Meaningful, Running, Ideas

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Class, Differences, People

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• It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

  Jean Kerr

  Horse, Way, Toys

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• By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

  Edmund Burke

  Moving, Fall, Race

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.405, Penguin

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• My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.

  Twyla Tharp

  Taken, Artist, Two

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

  Hesiod

  Prayer, Advice, Action

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• But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

  Margaret Benson

  Average, Mediocrity, Want

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”

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• More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

  Randall Jarrell

  Baby, Book, Men

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• in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Taken, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Class, Down And, Rich

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• Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Distance, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Class, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Running, Thinking, Nfl

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• I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of a debt crisis you can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis. That's logically impossible.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Discipline, Needs

  Interview with Peter Mansbridge, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 5, 2012.

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• As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It's not flip.

  Gene Siskel

  Fall, Thinking, Thumbs Down

  "Read Playboy … for the Interviews". Interview with David Sheff, www.slate.com. October 1995.

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• That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

  Stevie Nicks

  Play, Want, Happens

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

  Steve Case

  People, Perception, Genius

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• Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Couple, Night

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

  Sarah Kay

  Character, Order, Narrative

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• There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.

  Patrick Stump

  Two, People, Creative

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

  Richard Rohr

  Years, Suffering, World

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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