Middle Quotes
3785 Middle quotes by 2594 unique authors
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Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground...…
— Mu Xin
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
— Matthew Arnold
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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
— Matthew Arnold
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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent,…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Mitt Romney said that he liked to fire people. Well, there's a pretty good message to send to Middle America. When Rick Perry heard that,…
— David Letterman
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The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never…
— Orson Welles
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The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel. We are committed…
— Gerald R. Ford
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In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with…
— Matthew Arnold
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Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.
— Golda Meir
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In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
— Will Rogers
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It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
— Will Rogers
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Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the…
— John Muir
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This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
— Golda Meir
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Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . .…
— Matthew Arnold
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Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
— Eugene O'Neill
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One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've…
— Will Rogers
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I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff…
— Tony Hsieh
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In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
— Frederick Lenz
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You can't be wishy-washy. That's the most boring thing in the world, to be a middle-of-the-road wet noodle. That's my greatest fear, to be like,…
— Chris Black
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The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to…
— Dave Barry
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I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss,…
— Ricky Gervais
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A lot of American shows don't last for as long as 12 episodes. They get cut after one. But certainly one of the great things…
— Matt Groening
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Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.
— Nick Kroll
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