Middle Quotes - Page 35

• One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

  Scott Walker

  Class, Opponents, Amused

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• There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.

  Mark Levin

  Christian, Jim Crow Laws, Black

  "Mark Levin: Obama 'A Nihilist, A Narcissist And An Extremist;" Warns "We Are Going To Get Hit Again'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 05, 2015.

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• If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

  Erik Erikson

  Inspirational, Discovery, Essence

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• Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

  Francis Bacon

  Witty, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (1838). “The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay”, p.263

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• In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

  Kathleen Norris

  Pain, Regret, Loss

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

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• The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

  John Roberts

  Kings, Law, People

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• I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

  James Thurber

  Age, Reputation, Arguing

  Recalled on his death, 2 Nov 1961.

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• Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.

  Terry Jones

  Thinking, Order, Voice

  "The Middle Ages of reason" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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• If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

  Peter Cook

  Night, Men, Garbage

  Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.61, Random House

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• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Real, Land

  "Religion Reason Debate". Video, C-SPAN.Org, January 25, 2007.

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• In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

  Robert Reed

  Couple, Cutting, Effort

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• One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, War, Oil

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• I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.

  Bear Grylls

  Thinking, Fire, Clothes

  "Grilling Bear Grylls About 'Get Out Alive'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Air, Knives, Arrows

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

  Tom Hardy

  Nice, Thinking, Class

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

  Ashley Tisdale

  New York, Shopping, Middle Of Nowhere

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days.

  Michael Haneke

  Country, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I just really hope that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema can resolve all their differences. I'm hoping that's going to happen, but we'd have to wait and see. I would love to explore Middle Earth again with Peter.

  Karl Urban

  Differences, Waiting, Cinema

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

  I. M. Pei

  Years, Europe, Middle East

  Source: archtalks.com

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• At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

  I. M. Pei

  Islamic, Eye, Egypt

  Source: archtalks.com

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• Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the middle class is shrinking, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. That speaks to the weakness of the opposition. People do not like George W. Bush. But I think it's fair to say that they are not flocking to the Democratic Party, or see the Democrats as a real alternative.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.

  Miles Teller

  School, Piano, Band

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.

  Steven Conrad

  Running, Race, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

  Bernie Sanders

  Hard Work, Class, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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