Midst Quotes
841 quotes by 613 authors
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He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing…
— Andrew Card
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I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing…
— Herbert Hoover
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No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of…
— Samuel Johnson
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For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
— John Buchanan Robinson
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I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us…
— Pope Francis
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Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle,…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing…
— Friedrich Engels
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
— Alan Keyes
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Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and…
— Oswald Spengler
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Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a…
— Linda Ronstadt
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It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of…
— Richard J. Foster
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I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
— Don Meyer
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A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets…
— John Stuart Mill
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But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace.…
— Gustav Mahler
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic…
— Max Weber
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Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the…
— William Gurnall
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Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us…
— Pema Chodron
Who Wrote These Midst Quotes
613 authors contributed a total of 841 Midst Quotes, led by these top contributors: