T Quotes
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“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.”
“The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.”
“The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.”
“The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.”
“The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?”
“The Middle East is now filled with death and destruction and that was the aim of Neo-Conservatives who planned this destruction of seven Muslim nations in five years and they are on schedule and the final nation in their sights to destroy is the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
“The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.”
“The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.”
“The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.”
“The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.”
“The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.”
“The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.”
“The Middle East would always be an important trading partner in just a market sense, like America is a big market for us, Asia is a big market, Europe is a big market. You are going to have hundreds of millions of consumers there, from just a standard market point of view, from a very narrow American point of view.”
“The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.”
“The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.”
“The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.”
“The Middle is like nothing you have experienced before, Nesta. Don't let your guard down for a moment.'
Nesta nodded, not bothering to say that she'd operated by that principle for a long time.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.”
Source: Diaries, 1924-1932
“the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.”
Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
“The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.”
Source: America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.”
“The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.”
Source: Sheridan
“The middle of the night is just as advantageous as the middle of the day.”
Source: Symphony for a Deadly Throne
“The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.”
“The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.”
“The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.”
“The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.”
“The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.”
Source: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“The middle of the week is a great time to reflect on what was done and still needs to be done before the end of the week.”
“THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on maps: they were lines that did not exist in reality and created some of the most artificial borders the world has seen. An attempt is now being made to redraw them in blood.”
Source: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
“The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.”
“The middle path is the way to wisdom”
“The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.”
“The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.”
Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot kill half a fox. Like Monty Python parrot, a fox torn apart by hounds remains dead, deceased and off its perch for ever. Before the fox has been dispatched - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly - it will have suffered the agonies of the pursuit by animals four times its size and four times its strength. The middle way is a compromise that still seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.”
“The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.”
“The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.”
“The middle years of life come on like thunder.”
“The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.”
Source: The Middle Ground
“The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.”
“The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.”
“The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.”
Source: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
“The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.”
“The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.”
“The midfield picks itself - Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A N Other.”
“The Midgard Serpent opened its mouth and swallowed the ox head. The hook dug into the gums of its mouth, and when the serpent felt this, he snapped back so hard that both of Thor’s fists slammed against the gunwale. Thor now became angry and, taking on his divine strength, he strained so hard that both his feet pushed through the bottom of the boat. Using the sea floor to brace himself, he began pulling the serpent up on board. It can be said that no one has seen a more terrifying sight than this: Thor, narrowing his eyes at the serpent, while the serpent spits out poison and stares straight back from below. It is told that the giant Hymir changed colour. He grew pale and feared for his life when he saw the serpent and also the sea rushing in and out of the boat.”
Source: The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
“The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.”
Source: Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc
“The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.”