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“So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.”

Middle Shots Caught Storm East Middle East Transfers Orderly Sewers

Author:David Letterman

“The [Libyan] rebels this week kind of hinted to the United States that they could use a little help. Right. Like, America would just blunder around the Middle East killing people without all the facts. That doesn't sound like the America I know.”

People Knows Kind Littles States Facts Helping Use America Sound United United States Week Middle Killing East Rebel Middle East Blunders Little Help

Author:Bill Maher

“The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!”

Needs Years Hard America Class Economy Rich Middle Hard Work Shots Experiments Corporations Giants Middle Class Lobbyists Trickle Down

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.”

Age Names Middle Honesty Slave Middle Ages Antiquity Serfs

Book:Bakunin on anarchism

Source: Bakunin on anarchism

“The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.”

Thinking Class Middle Males Middle Class Monopoly Objectivity

Author:Grayson Perry

“God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now He wants me to work on the Middle East problem.”

Want Problem Middle Iraq East Afghanistan Want Me Middle East Saddam Hussein Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden He Wants Me

Author:George W. Bush

“While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.”

Ends Fighting Poor Class Break Struggle Rich Middle Taxes Extraordinary Middle Class Afghanistan Tax Breaks Mega

Author:Warren Buffett

“Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.”

Middle Summer Winter

Author:Albert Camus

“My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.”

Two Running Saws Middle College Horse Mark Beer Parks Truck Couches Headings Kegs

Author:Kevin Plank

“Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.”

Values Poor Class Middle Taxes Dollars Middle Class Reserves Vicious Sinister Federal Reserve

Author:Ron Paul

“Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.”

Thinking States Moving Dark Creativity Middle New York Bed Areas South Labels Islands Massive Flaws Chicago Southern Urban Romanticism Fertile Weirdness Kentucky Progressivism Louisville

Author:Jim James

“Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.”

Ifs Interesting Fire Middle Shooting Tattoo Foxes

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.”

Years Kids School Middle Moved Grades Fourth Fourth Grade School Years

Author:Michael Steger

“I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.”

Firsts Names Simple Middle Pure

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.”

Has Beens Play Character Film Actors Strong Chance Middle Tvs India Series South East Middle East Hispanic Tv Series

Author:Madhur Mittal

“A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.”

Ends Christ Mistake Middle Crime Conception Execution Preaching Sermons Beginning Middle And End

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.”

World Trying Whole School Young Stuff Bits Hurt Class Middle Youth Drama Determined Theatre Middle Class Usual Hurt Me Sociable It Really Hurts Youth Theatre

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.”

Bigs Film Young Hate Actors Steps Roles Middle Army Thrust Young Actors Small Steps

Author:Paddy Considine

“Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.”

Kids Middle Special Stuck Something Special Stuck In The Middle

Author:Karen Tayleur

“I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city.”

Race Cities Streets Middle Racing

Author:Romain Grosjean

“I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.”

Ifs Would Be Young Dies Teacher Wife Middle Youth Died Features Notable Middle Aged Young Writers Die Young Homeowners Young Wife

Book:The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Source: The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

“I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.”

Years School Middle High School Hiding Senior Middle School My Smile Senior Year

Author:Uzo Aduba

“I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.”

Able Actors Accepting Class Middle Models My Family Actresses Middle Class Middle Class Family

Author:Suresh Raina

“I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.”

Real School Values Class Issues Middle Fame Understood Middle Class Lots Of Money Real Value Middle Class Family

Author:Suresh Raina

“I think Iran is a very dangerous country - very dangerous to Israel, to the Middle East, and also to the United States. They export terrorism. And they also have the ability to manufacture rockets and missiles.”

Thinking Country States Ability United United States Middle Dangerous Israel Terrorism East Iran Middle East Rockets Missiles

Author:Dutch Ruppersberger

“In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.”

People Ifs Believe Energy Consciousness Class Middle Conversation Karma Middle Class Housewife Slums Upper Class Mumbai Come Back To Me

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.”

Cities Middle Crowds Hardest Aliens Homesickness

Book:Barracuda

Source: Barracuda

“Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.”

“I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.”

Art Said Two Ends Artist Found Force Answers Middle Effects Labor Distinguished Art Love

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]”

Men Courses Trouble Middle All Things Excess Moderation Exes Optimum

Author:Plautus

“Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.”

People Knows May Moments Common Class Know How Middle Crisis Former Latter Middle Class Behaviour Formal Brutes Upper Class Fastidious Uncouth

Author:Cesare Pavese

“You will be safest in the middle.”

Middle

Author:Ovid

“Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?”

Class Middle Middle Class Sense Of Humor

Book:Bliss

Source: Bliss

“Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.”

Moving Middle Gratitude Winter Pity Attempting Bankers Ukraine

Author:Honore de Balzac

“One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.”

Men Book Known Middle One Day Driving Paris Height Uniforms Captains July Carriages Stout Conveying Rue National Guard

Book:Cousin Betty

Source: Cousin Betty

“Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!”

Lying Dark White Air Sky Middle Creatures Fairs Silent Speed Graves Snow Height Streams Lakes Haste Frail Fling Gazing Flakes

Author:William C. Bryant

“Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.”

Way Feels Age Middle Symptoms Middle Ages

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.”

Ifs Persons Age Middle Capitalism Resources Educated Posts Capitalist Middle Ages Knights Bourgeois Embodiment Educated Person

Author:Peter Drucker

“Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.”

Thinking Mind Different States Black Poor Accepting Class Poverty Struggle Middle Middle Class State Of Mind

Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night, change its diapers, and give it a bottle, but in their heart of hearts they still think they shouldn't have to.”

Thinking Men Giving Heart Stills Night Walks Middle Baby Get Up Bottles Middle Of The Night Diapers

Author:Rita Rudner

“I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.”

Inspirational Funny Dark Middle Wind Boat Passages Steady Sail Sailing Nautical Boats And Sailing Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love Smooth Sailing Middle Passage

Author:Arthur Ashe

“It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.”

World Wells Said Stills Book Age Remember Spiritual Belief Pleasure Boys Forever Taken Middle Century Proud Winter Clock Compliment Far Away Middle Ages Austria Slurs

Book:The Mysterious Stranger

Source: The Mysterious Stranger

“Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.”

People Want Children Said Today Used Class Taken Environment Middle Morality Our Children Used To Be Your Children Smoking Middle Class Sentiments Replaced Homosexual Smokers

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.”

Seems Certain Values Class Middle Amount Defined Middle Class Unlimited

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.”

“Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]”

Lying Courses Middle Safety Moderation

Author:Ovid

“Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.”

Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal

“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”

“For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.”

Kind Doe Helping Age Growth Half Accepting Middle Periods Interpretation Adolescence Middle Ages Flowering

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.”

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