So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes. — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we… — Bev Perdue Copy Share Image
As the planet wobbles, once every 26,000 years we visually align with the center of the galaxy. But it's such a slow… — Lee Carroll Copy Share Image
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe,… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's… — Jordana Spiro Copy Share Image
I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
It's a gratifying feeling to be in the middle of so many people, speak to them on different issues, meet people from… — Gurpreet Ghuggi Copy Share Image
Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we… — Amanda Holden Copy Share Image
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin'… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people… — Laura Antoniou Copy Share Image
I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image