Midway Quotes

• Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, Skills, Victory

  Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC) Communique No. 3 after the Battle of Midway, June 6, 1942.

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• Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

  Walter Lord

  Courage, Men, Skills

  Walter Lord (2012). “Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.

  Robert Cowley

  Peace, War, College

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• Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

  Plotinus

  Beast, Mankind, Humankind

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• After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

  Jack Adams

  Fog, Battle, Pearls

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• The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

  Arianna Huffington

  Games, Literature, Toss

  "Pigs at the Trough". Book by Arianna Huffington, New York: Crown Publishers, 1st edition ed., 2003.

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• We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Reality, Use, Coins

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• Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

  John Ensign

  Oakland, San Francisco, Competition

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• Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Science, Deities, Evolution

  Edward Young (1851). “Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes”, p.77

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• Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Journey, Woods

  Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). “Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.19, Indiana University Press

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• HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, School, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.111, University of Georgia Press

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• In the midway of this our mortal life,
  I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
  Gone from the path direct.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Gone, Woods

  Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.204, Bibliolis Books

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• Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Organization, Two

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• Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

  Katherine Applegate

  Oatmeal, Storm, Battle

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• gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gratitude, Lying, Benefits

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, University of Georgia Press

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• Midway upon the journey of our life

  Dante Alighieri

  Journey, Divine Comedy, Our Lives

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, Dante Alighieri

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• If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

  Steve Martin

  Tired, Giving, Bulls

  "An Open Letter to Eddie Murphy" by Steve Martin, www.stevemartin.com. September 20, 2011.

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• The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold--the mind and the power to enjoy it.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wise, Men, Race

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume”, p.124

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• Midway in our life's journey, I went astray
  from the straight road and woke to find myself
  alone in a dark wood.

  Dante Alighieri

  Book, Dark, Journey

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.433, Penguin

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• But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ocean, August, Ears

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• Television has borrowed from the carnival midway the barker's tease: "Coming Up Next: a Perfect 10" (Sex? Bo Derek? No, the weatherman comes on to say that tomorrow will be nice).

  Edwin Diamond

  Sex, Nice, Media

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• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Taught Us

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• Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. She/he will be ignorant, hasty and shy, and will need hauling out of trouble quite a lot. But she/he will grow up in the course of the Tour. In fact she/he will be the only Companion who will change in any way. Quite often, she/he will soon exhibit a very useful talent for magic and end up by hauling everyone else out of trouble. But this will not be until midway through your second brochure.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Growing Up, Princess

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• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Imagination, Waiting

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• And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Fate, Differences

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