Middle Quotes
3785 quotes by 2703 authors
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning…
— Aristotle
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep…
— Arthur Ashe
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about…
— Sean Astin
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart.…
— Rodney Atkins
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in…
— Margaret Atwood
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I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies…
— Jensen Ackles
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
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I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the…
— Tammy Baldwin
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or…
— J. G. Ballard
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
— Javier Bardem
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In politics the middle way is none at all.
— John Adams
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Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but…
— Bob Beauprez
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
— Martha Beck
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and…
— Samuel Beckett
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
— Saul Bellow
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