“I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.” PeopleThinkingSchoolMiddleInternetComputerMessagesHigh SchoolBoardsMiddle School Author:Sara Paxton
“Mitt Romney said that he liked to fire people. Well, there's a pretty good message to send to Middle America. When Rick Perry heard that, he said, 'Well that's nothing. I like to execute people.'” PeopleWellsSaidAmericaFireHeardMiddleMessagesRomneyMiddle America Author:David Letterman
“Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.” PeopleWorldGivingSufferingMillionsGreaterCuttingMiddleBecomingMessagesStrongerOverwhelmedBecoming Stronger Author:David Ben-Gurion
“I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.” HomeMiddleOfficeComputerMessagesAskingSouthIraqMilesPostsPrizeDivisionMidnightBaghdadMiddle Of NowhereAirborneHome Office Author:Rick Atkinson
“I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.” KnowsShouldHumansImportantPlayKnow HowMiddleHugeMessagesPhonesCrowdsStaring Author:Roxane Gay
“In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.” WorldMindLooksHeartMadeStillsDifferentLightEyeJoyJesusChristDifferencesChurchSimpleHealingOur LivesMiddleCircumstancesDespairMessagesJesus ChristMy FamilyMiserySaintHorribleGermanyLatterEnlightenedViewpointsLatter DaysSimple TruthsLatter Day SaintsPlain And Simple Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“In general, I think what Donald Trump's message is, is: I'm a very practical, execution-oriented entrepreneur who built a successful business. I've demonstrated an ability to go global with my business. I can get along with a lot of different people. There are certain problems in the United States right now born from faulty policy. So what is happening right now is the lower and middle class are being left behind by the globalization and by the global elite. I think that's basically his message, and Bernie Sanders' is similar.” PeopleThinkingI CanDifferentStatesProblemCertainLeftBornAbilityUnitedBehindsClassUnited StatesSuccessfulMiddlePolicyTrumpRight NowMessagesHappeningsBuiltEntrepreneurPracticalsMiddle ClassElitesExecutionGlobalizationLeft BehindDifferent PeoplesSuccessful Business Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.” StatesHelpingTodayUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleMessagesWorkersMiddle Class Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.” PeopleWellsKindEnoughTurnsClassMiddleNeededMessagesExpectedMiddle ClassPenetrateStrengthening Author:Keith Ellison
“Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.” PeopleWayShouldHardHelpingClassStruggleMiddleMessagesShould HaveDemocraticCome UpMiddle ClassPlatformsMichiganStrengtheningPennsylvaniaWisconsin Author:Keith Ellison
“If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be concerned with pleasing the middle. I find it means you have to dumb down your message to something less radical than the gospel. It can't be the real gospel. It has to be "churchiness" that pleases everyone, so they come back next Sunday and keep putting money in the collection plate. I don't mean that in a cynical way. I just think it's what happens.” IfsThinkingWayMeanRealHappensNextPayMiddlePleaseMessagesConcernedOrganizationBillsRadicalDumbCollectionsSundayCynicalPlatesSalary Author:Richard Rohr
“In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they kind of push the message: "It's a free country." Everybody has the right to say whatever they want to say. But in the Middle East, culture is your guide. You have to ask, is it culturally okay to say something like that? Is it culturally okay, for example, to show a woman giving birth? As Arabs watching such a scene in an American film it's okay, but when it comes to the Arabic context, we're like, "How dare you?" So it's how you present it.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsFirstsKindCountryStatesShowsFilmCultureAsksSpeakHeardMiddleExampleBirthSceneMessagesOkayDareEastGuidesMiddle EastAmendmentsFirst AmendmentGiving BirthFree CountryAmerican Film Author:Mohammed Saeed Harib
“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.” ChildrenMiddleMediaTvsMessagesGloryResearchSuicideTerrorismEastDecadesInnocentMiddle EastPalestinianInstituteTextbooksDiseased Author:John Podhoretz
“Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand, I carried a message. I came to the puddle. I could not cross it. Identity failed me. We are nothing, I said, and fell. I was blown like a feather. I was wafted down tunnels. Then very gingerly, I pushed my foot across. I laid my hand against a brick wall. I returned very painfully, drawing myself back into my body over the grey, cadaverous space of the puddle. This is life then to which I am committed.” SaidBodyHandsSpaceFeetMiddleIdentityWindWallMessagesCrossesLaysCommittedStormDrawingAwfulGreyFeathersBricksJulyTunnelsEnvelopesPuddlesBrick Wall Author:Virginia Woolf
“There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.” LoveBookEndsMomentsAgeBeautifulCausesMoralMiddleEffectsProduceParticularMessagesDepthChosenSuspenseOne TimeSurprisingMarvelousSlaughterhouse FiveBeginning Middle And EndSlaughterhouse 5Slaughter House 5Slaughter House Five Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE