Midst Quotes - Page 36

• I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.

  George W. Bush

  Trying, Answers, Pressure

  Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War, delivered on 13 April 2004 from the East Room of the White House

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• In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.

  Joseph Conrad

  Regret, Hate, Heart

  Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.71, Broadview Press

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• Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

  Seneca the Younger

  Girl, Art, Pain

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• I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.

  Teju Cole

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Oasis, Phoenix

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Dog, Men

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.

  John Dickinson

  Order, Careers, Blood

  John Dickinson (2009). “The Writings of John Dickinson”, p.364, Applewood Books

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• I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Heart, Cynical, Comforting

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.

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• In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Light, Circles, Darkness

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• For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

  Alfred the Great

  Humble, Pride, Men

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• It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

  Stephen Crane

  Gone, Golden, Process

  Stephen Crane (2004). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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• It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

  Richard Baxter

  Understanding, Storm, Sound

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• In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Sun, Temples, Glorious

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• The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?

  Martin Luther

  People, Rose, Enemy

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• For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

  Barack Obama

  Awards, Greed, President

  "Obama Announces Executive Pay Caps". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.

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• Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been scattered in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous struggle for the conservation of his identity.

  Maurice Samuel

  Struggle, Jewish Identity, Problem

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• You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations.

  Maurice Samuel

  Variation, May, Way

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• We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Jesus, Mirrors

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• We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Trust In God, Crisis

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• In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Love You, Battle

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• The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

  Albert Schweitzer

  Cute, Destiny, Essence

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• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

  George Washington

  Sweet, Retirement, Freedom

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.337

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• The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Ocean, Ignorance, Islands

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• Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting "shut up"... when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be "civil."

  Ann Althouse

  Hate, Feet, America

  "Why does the left hate free speech?" by Ann Althouse, althouse.blogspot.ru. February 3, 2011.

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• Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

  Rumi

  Strong, Buddhist, Loss

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Love Is Reckless”

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