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“Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.”

Art Bigs Passion Middle Creation Painting Art Is Standing

Author:Michele Cassou

“Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.”

Mind Culture Names Path Middle Concepts Opposites Fundamentals Unions Western Chinese Inward Lacking Tao Items Middle Path

Book:Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

“We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.”

Thinking Kind Middle Built Islands Poetic Toilets Atlantis Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.”

Source: A Ray of Darkness

“In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.”

Fun Interesting Class Middle Planets Drink Alternatives Beer Having Fun Middle Class Festivals Bourgeois Glastonbury

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.”

Years Ends Goal President Economy Clear Middle Security Planets Ten Sake Oil East Middle East Dependence Our Planet Clear Goals

Author:Barack Obama

“When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.”

Littles Film Names Middle New York Mines Huge Scene Letters Bottom Tiny Fountain Skyscraper Billboards Distributors

Author:Anita Ekberg

“It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.”

“The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.”

Country Age Young Language Interesting Trouble Middle Old Age Middle Aged Foreign Countries

Author:May Sarton

“A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.”

Ifs Looks Life Is Middle Management

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.”

People Thinking Happens Class Middle Depends Middle Class Ambitious Sober Planners Thinking Ahead Strivers

Author:Robert Menzies

“Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.”

People Way Mind Heart Mean Reason Forget Path Middle Listening Balance Conscience Logic Heart And Mind Middle Way

Author:Suzy Kassem

“With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we're losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle.”

Humanity Bits Ability Technology Middle Media Losing Ridiculous Pace Expanding Electronic Media

Author:Walter Trout

“I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.”

Want Country Moving Fighting Deals Class Middle Investment Critical Debt Moving Forward Our Country Middle Class Deficit Want U Middle Class Family

Author:Patty Murray

“Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.”

Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond

“Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.”

Men Heart Age Young Lying Powerful Middle Rocks Movement Flower Band Late Function Impulse Young Man Teens Sixty Misogyny Seventies Fraternity Rock Bands Mods

Author:Michael Chabon

“It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.”

“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”

“Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD!”

Church Middle Mad East Temples Middle East Mosques

Author:Maria Bamford

“My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.”

Ifs Want Kind Different Modern Middle Style Periods Add My Favorite Mediocre Favorites Things Mixing Decorating

Author:Nate Berkus

“I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.”

Thinking Life Is Interesting Middle Aspect Aspects Of Life

Author:Brie Larson

“The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.”

Problem America Faces Class Middle Income Middle Class Decline

Author:Charles Schumer

“The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.”

Years Wells America Moving Used Lost Company Class Support Middle Cost Labor Congress Income Middle Class Agreement Lowest Endorsements Afl Cio

Author:Charles Schumer

“I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.”

Way Needs Feels Has Beens Class Middle Majors Trade Income Factors Middle Class Very Strong Decline Need A Change

Author:Charles Schumer

“I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized.”

Believe Jobs Loses Company Class Middle Amount Intellectual Gains Property Good Things China Stealing Income Middle Class Intellectual Property

Author:Charles Schumer

“I think the Clintons are going to make their decision based on the merits. And their focus, like mine, is on middle class jobs. We`re in a different world than 1994. The China we dealt with in 1994 is a lot different than the China today in 2015.”

Thinking World Different Today Jobs Decision Class Focus Middle Mines Clinton China Merit Middle Class Different Worlds

Author:Chris Matthews

“Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.”

“I`m impressed that people out there in Pennsylvania, deer hunter country, have had it with these stupid wars, that they don`t go along with the neocon theology, they don`t go along with the big money people or the evangelicals that always seem to want to fight, especially in the Middle East.”

People Want War Country Bigs Seems Fighting Middle Stupid East Theology Middle East Impressed Hunters Deer Pennsylvania Deer Hunter

Author:Chris Matthews

“That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.”

Want Film Used Middle Huge Areas Used To Be Middle Ground

Author:Eric Fellner

“People in a state like Pennsylvania, especially in the middle of the state, as you say, want the focus on repairing the state. Pennsylvania is a mess in terms of infrastructure. They don`t want to blow up bridges over there. They want to build them here.”

People Want States Term Focus Middle Blow Mess Bridges Infrastructure Pennsylvania Repairing

Author:Chris Matthews

“President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.”

“This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.”

People Country Enough Moments Home Fighting Class Break Issues Middle Raises Secure Saving Our Time Middle Class Retirement Stakes Modest Defining Savings Make Or Break

Author:Barack Obama

“I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.”

Thinking Middle Careful East Middle East

Author:Rand Paul

“There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?”

Ifs Knows Needs Middle Students East Middle East Obeying Visa

Author:Rand Paul

“At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.”

Long War Moments Winning Middle Endure Financial East Significant Phenomenon Middle East Ideological Extremist Theological

Author:Chuck Todd

“Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I'm only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I'll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines.”

“There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.”

People Long Running Kids Bits Class Middle Changed Hair Walking Clothes Leaving Middle Class Dressed Up Long Hair Trendy

Author:John Lennon

“I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.”

People Ifs Thinking Parent Class Nice Middle Trauma Middle Class

Author:John Lennon

“I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .”

Trying Mean Use Lord Class Hell Middle Special Stupid Mouths Pressure Drunk Middle Class Humiliation Mayors Condescending Showbiz

Author:John Lennon

“To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.”

“I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.”

Ifs Seems Reading Stars Morning Written Middle Century Newspapers 19th Century Middle Aged

Author:John Lennon

“Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?”

Men Needs Giving Names Middle Fronts Giving Up Program Sells Oil East Brown Convince Middle East Tribes

Author:Lenny Bruce

“Be patient. Always be kind. Stand in the middle of the river. Be prepared. It [success] will all come. Don't be in such a rush.”

Kind Middle Rivers Prepared Patient Be Kind Be Prepared Be Patient

Author:Rockmond Dunbar

“Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays.”

“I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.”

Long Wanted School Young Fun Parent Acting Middle Mom Dad My Dad Grades Principal Middle School Counselor Good Grades

Author:Shailene Woodley

“I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.”

Thinking Men Trying White Laughing Middle White Man Middle Aged Make Me Laugh

Author:Chris Bauer

“In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that`s called stock car racing. That`s what NASCAR is. That`s what the SC stands for in the middle of NASCAR, Stock cars.”

Country Form Middle Car Huge Industry Dollars Racing Nascar Car Racing Stock Car Racing

Author:Rachel Maddow

“The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.”

Giving Persons Middle Taxes Lawyer Income Tails Income Tax Accountants Certified Public Accountant

Author:W. C. Fields

“If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.”

Ifs Firsts Wanted Steps Middle Conflict Obvious East Settling Middle East First Steps Palestinian Israeli Settling Down Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Author:Molly Ivins

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.”

People Persons Said Enough Religious Class Middle Mines Philosopher Educated Luxury Middle Class Skepticism Secular Rapture Syphilis German Philosopher

Book:Timequake

Source: Timequake

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