Middle Quotes · Page 76

People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.

— Kelvin MacKenzie

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

— Elliott Abrams

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

— Joan Rivers

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

— Patti Smith

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

— Sharon Stone

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

— Ryan Tedder

Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's…

— Lisa Scottoline

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills,…

— Edmund White

When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of…

— Paulo Coelho

When I was wee, in the middle of the summer, the big field behind the shops would be filled with dry grass…

— Limmy

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of…

— Cameron Sinclair

We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal…

— Max Fisher

There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in…

— Crowder

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we…

— George Orwell

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So…

— Allen Ginsberg

I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think…

— Robert Reich

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the…

— George Bernard Shaw

An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative…

— Nii Parkes

Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated…

— Newt Gingrich

We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard…

— John F. Kennedy

I think everyone in all due respect just needs to calm down Chris Weidman just because he’s undefeated. He’s undefeated because he’s…

— Michael Bisping

In my opinion, we've spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people [on the Middle East] that frankly, if they were there…

— Donald Trump

It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that…

— Richard Rodriguez

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages…

— Jan Schakowsky

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the…

— Jackie Speier

Comedians in the Midwest are scrappy. We're always touring and doing shows in the middle of random places, and that's a cool…

— Sarah Sherman

In the Middle East, I can't walk down the street without being recognized. In the States, I'm totally fine going out.

— Huda Kattan

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can…

— Sam Taylor-Wood

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

— Jamie Dimon

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

— Roger Ebert

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested…

— Juan Cole

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the…

— Neil Welliver

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle…

— Anna Quindlen

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

— Ralph Borsodi

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Redd Foxx

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

— Anonymous

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who…

— Barack Obama