Middle Quotes

• A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

  Aristotle

  Ends, Whole

  Poetics ch. 7, 1450b

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• Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Birthday, Ambition, Ego

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  Nancy Pelosi

  Fighting, Past, Class

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• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, Two Sides, Decision

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• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Order, Should Have

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Two

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• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Moon, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.167, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Age, Youth, Spending

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

  Barbara Johnson

  Anniversary, Happy Valentines Day, Love Is

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• We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

  Robert Frost

  Clever, Philosophy, Secret

  Witness Tree (1942) "The Secret Sits"

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• I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Eye, Numbness

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Eye, Shapes, Ends

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• It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Class, Luxury, Political

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• There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Life, Age, Three

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• The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

  Aristotle

  Class, Perfect, Community

  Aristotle (1919). “A treatise on government: translated from the Greek of Aristotle”

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• I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Travel, Huge, Funny Travel

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• We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

  William Henry Hudson

  Believe, Years, Decay

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”

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• There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Silence, Ends, Notes

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• The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

  Louise Bogan

  Flower, Order, Class

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Middle East, World, Demand

  "Recep Tayyip Erdogan: The Road to Middle East Democracy". Address at Harvard University, www.independent.co.uk. February 09, 2004.

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• Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

  Herb Kohl

  Easter, War, Winning

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• We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

  Rick Larsen

  Jobs, Class, America

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• We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

  Michael Eisner

  Technology, Technological Change, Hollywood

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• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

  Bruce Sterling

  Suicide, Class, People

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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