Middle Quotes - Page 20

• I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Travel, Couple, Home

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• An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Mad, Black

  Charles Dickens (2003). “Oliver Twist”, p.53, Collector's Library

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• A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Blue, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.120

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• Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

  Rick Bayan

  People, Perceive, Moderates

  "The Sweep: Vikings, voters and the charge of the Militant Middle" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2010.

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• The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Police, Half, Beard

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• We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Stars, Lying, Space

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• In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

  Dan Jenkins

  Stories, Able, Way

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• It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

  Tahir Shah

  Ancestry, Middle East, Impossible

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• I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Girl, Father, Home

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.

  Celinda Lake

  Football, Class, Sick

  "Women Are the Deciders, But for Which Candidate? An Interview With Pollster Celinda Lake". Interview with Martha Burk, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

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• In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.

  John Daniel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Agreement

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• Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.

  R. J. Palacio

  School, Get Better, It Gets Better

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.208, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Mind, Religion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.218, Penguin

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• Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

  Francois Rabelais

  Faith, Silly, Player

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• Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Age, Youth

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• Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Dream, Knowledge

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• For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Mean, Night

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells letters: the correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

  "What Do We Have To Teach Plato?". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, news.stlpublicradio.org. April 22, 2014.

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• Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.

  David Foster Wallace

  America, People, Corporations

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.

  Max Lucado

  Lying, Difficult Times, Speak

  Source: thebrinkonline.com

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• I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

  Alice Walker

  Father, Taken, Night

  Source: foreignpolicy.com

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• When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

  Michael O'Leary

  Stupid, Numbers, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You don't need sunglasses inside a building in the middle of the night.

  Jimmy Heath

  Night, Sunglasses, Needs

  "Saxophonists rate Bill Clinton's musical ability". Interview with Ron Givens, ew.com. June 19, 1992.

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• We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mean, Winning, Iraq

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

  Jesse Jackson

  Iraq, America, Long

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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