Midst Quotes
841 quotes by 613 authors
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In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event
— Peggy Fleming
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced…
— Charles M. Blow
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
— Yitzhak Rabin
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I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up…
— George W. Bush
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou…
— Seneca the Younger
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from…
— Teju Cole
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Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.
— Edward Abbey
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We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the…
— Ray Bradbury
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In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have…
— John Dickinson
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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly…
— Berkeley Breathed
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For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of…
— Alfred the Great
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It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
— Stephen Crane
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It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the…
— Richard Baxter
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In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a…
— Maurice Samuel
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The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the…
— Martin Luther
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For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad…
— Barack Obama
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Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been…
— Maurice Samuel
Who Wrote These Midst Quotes
613 authors contributed a total of 841 Midst Quotes, led by these top contributors: