Midst Quotes
841 Midst quotes by 613 unique authors
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True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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The Lord has told me that the last generation before His final coming will consist of His choicest children since the creation of the earth.…
— Chris Heimerdinger
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His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but…
— Henri Nouwen
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.…
— Barack Obama
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I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in…
— Yann Martel
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I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the…
— Bell Hooks
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We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in…
— Gene Wolfe
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I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and…
— Saul Bellow
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The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed…
— John Irving
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Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
— Bernard Beckett
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
— Isabel Allende
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I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines…
— Haruki Murakami
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And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a…
— Elizabeth Strout
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Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a…
— Karen Hawkins
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Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
— Noel Coward
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I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
— John Eldredge
Who Wrote These Midst Quotes
613 authors contributed a total of 841 Midst Quotes, led by these top contributors: