Middle Quotes - Page 8

• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Practice

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• I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

  Redd Foxx

  Son, Class, America

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• The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Lying

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• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

  Andre Gide

  Honor, Age, Literature

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• You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  Alexander Haig

  Frustration, Middle East, Looks

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• The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Class, Barbarians, Century

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• Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

  John Lydon

  Rotten, Left

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• Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

  Marc Maron

  Easter, Israel, Middle East

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• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Acres

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Class, Lasts

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Struggle, Class

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 13

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• The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

  Dan Quayle

  Witty, Political, Middle East

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• The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

  Elizabeth Warren

  Hard Work, Class, America

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• I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

  Herodotus

  Cheating, Men, Cities

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, (1.153.1), c. 440 BC.

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• Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Wheels, Thirty

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• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  Ovid

  Middle Path, Path, Moderation

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• In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

  Plautus

  Excess, Trouble, Courses

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• As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Autumn, Men, Years

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• Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

  Confucius

  Isolated

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• Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad,
  I like to keep poking around in it.
  I like to get into the middle of a relationship,
  to explore the subtle places.

  Paul Mazursky

  Funny Relationship, Subtle, Situation

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• Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Hervey Allen

  Age, Five Senses, 20th Birthday

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  Aaron Neville

  Technology, Play, People

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• A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Democracy, Middle East, Administration

  "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

  Ric Ocasek

  Country, Song, Writing

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• I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

  Betty Buckley

  Thinking, Class, White

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