Midst Quotes

841 Midst quotes by 613 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human… — Dainin Katagiri
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a… — Thomas Merton
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the… — George Crabbe
Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in… — James Fitzjames Stephen
When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I… — Benjamin Carson
I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the… — Frantz Fanon
Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity. — Adeline Yen Mah
I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy.… — Gordon Lightfoot
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and… — Charlie Haden
One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into… — John Jeremiah Sullivan
In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the… — Unknown Author
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is… — David Hyde Pierce
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only… — Roger Bacon
In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. — Thomas Cranmer

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