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Middle Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power…
- Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
- There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:…
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
- They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of…
More Middle Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made… — Jensen Ackles
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin