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“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.”

Next White Half Seeing Sea Middle Building Stones Sight Glasses Wave Heavy London Boat Dirty Score Concrete Flood Steel Bricks Spit Rowing Slate Foam Submerged Spires Asphalt

Book:Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

Source: Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

“I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.”

Middle Immortality Gaps

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.”

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Author:Ed Miliband

“I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.”

Happens Age Death Song Dies Middle Stage

Author:Dolly Parton

“I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.”

Years Enough Age Rooms Middle Youth Aesthetic Decline Shed Invitations Middle Ages Monstrous Posture Philistines

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?”

Today Young Middle Fashion Former Designer 1960s Redos

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.”

“Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.”

Thinking Ideas War Fighting Middle Truth Is Absolutes Noble Relative Vacuums Absolutism

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.”

Seems Moral Class Imagine Middle Fashion Style Clothes Ideals Posts Revolutionary Rising Appropriate Middle Class Elegant Victorian Epoch Artificiality Empresses

Author:James Laver

“Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged”

Middle Logic Employment Poetry Is Lyrical Middle Aged

Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

“In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.”

Middle Fashion Dresses

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.”

Problem Age Middle Divine Conflict Middle Ages Lure Earthly Things

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.”

Years Ideas Moments Age Humanity Next Found Energy Grows Middle Century Consequence Mysterious Broke Odd Realms Fifty Chemistry Disorder Middle Ages Mold

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

“He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.”

Knows States Sides Middle Moderation

Book:Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

Source: Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

“Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!”

“England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.”

“That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.”

America Nations Class Middle England Middle Class

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.”

Use Courses Middle Crowds Humble Arrogant Incapable Moderates Dominating

Author:Livy

“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

Life Should Ends Life Is Middle Neat Tidy Neat And Tidy

Book:Half a Life

Source: Half a Life

“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.”

World Made Age My Own Quality Wonder Mystery Childhood Middle Special Promise Horror Scene Evidence Immortality Visible Intensity Vague Middle Ages Hints Seductive Menace Plausible

Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950

Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950

“Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.”

“I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.”

Lasts America Class Middle Century Grew Grew Up Middle Class Middle Class Family

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.”

Believe Humans Reality Light Seems Government Age Pay Study Progress Middle Students Ought South Bombs Cheer South Africa Senators Middle Ages Examination Hydrogen Human Progress Hydrogen Bomb

Book:Lucky Jim

Source: Lucky Jim

“A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.”

Mind Voice Millions Doubt Middle Policy News Raises Raised Officials Eyebrows Remarks Veracity Public Officials Caustic Raised Eyebrows

Author:Spiro T. Agnew

“We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.”

People Jobs Class Rich Growing Middle Industry Middle Class Rich People Manufacturing Service Industry

Author:Chris Hayes

“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.”

Real Hard Play Character Film Games Class Watches Morning Middle Television Balls Real Life Restaurants Middle Class Lunch Competent Practise Ball Games Clarinet Middle Class Life

Author:Woody Allen

“I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.”

People Thinking Years Children Use Problem Bigs Realizing Natural Class Middle Resources India Upset Middle Class Natural Resources Big Families Tanzania

Author:Jane Goodall

“Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?”

Hell Doubt Middle Painting Woods Factors All Alone

Author:Neil Welliver

“Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.”

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an explosive region, and more US intervention means more people will die. We should be choosing peace - not a new conflict. More so than anyone else, my supporters know that America cannot afford another unlawful, immoral war in the Middle East. Stand with me and tell President Obama to stay out of Syria.”

People Knows Should Mean War America Dies President Middle Conflict East Civil War Regions Als President Obama Middle East Syria Supporter Immoral Intervention Al Qaeda Explosives Unlawful

Author:Ron Paul

“The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.”

Animal Middle Dumb Middle Of The Road

Author:Anton Newcombe

“What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out.”

Feels Kind Sleep Brain Journey Middle Draws Blow Pointless Stride Assassins Beads

Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004

Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004

“The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.”

Men World Firsts Has Beens Age Able Middle Youth Goes On Brilliant Great Men Fades Grey Middle Ages Glamour Flowering

Book:Not Under Forty

Source: Not Under Forty

“It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.”

Men Has Beens Two Hands Lines Feet Middle Equal Distance Fingers Height Sole Crowns Straight Lines Two Hands Middle Finger

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

“By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.”

Ifs Persons Middle Rocks Radio Nostalgia Upset Classic Stations Sixty Eighty Middle Aged Radio Stations Classic Rock

Book:Turning 40

Source: Turning 40

“There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.”

Knows Firsts Two Important Reason Philosophy Opinion Impossible Middle Ignorance Truth Is Important Things Threat Extremes Sensible Quests Unnecessary Middle Ground Two Extremes Socratic

Author:Allan Bloom

“Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. ... The term "middle class" does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artist - all good.”

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Author:Allan Bloom

“One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?”

People Looks Ideas Moments Body Eye Emotion Middle Objects Lows Mark Emptiness Inches Perpetual Cautious Urgency Wrinkles Apprehension Back Again Middle Aged Sideways

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”

“Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.”

Way Years Long Middle Dog Months Cold Eating Fellows Thirty Crow Old Dog Quails

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.”

Ifs Littles Night Sound Records Middle Fancy Middle Of The Night

Author:Barry Gibb

“Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing.”

Wells Middle Dues Oil East Tension Temporary Middle East Barrels Analysts Oil Price

Author:Jay Leno

“Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.”

Soul Body Heaven Middle Fame Graves Verses

Author:John Donne

“In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.”

Ends Water Compassion Sun Middle Fruit Seeds Warmth Ripening Warmth Of The Sun

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Long Ends Stories Middle Draws Tired Storytelling Beginning Middle And End

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?”

Age Happened Middle Instance Middle Ages Juliet Pasta Silhouettes

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!”

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Author:Jean Baudrillard

“At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.”

Men Age Middle Century Gentle Stakes Disguise Middle Ages Twentieth Century Barbarism

Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.”

People Happens Night Memories Sleep Answers Middle Pressure Millionaire Middle Of The Night Under Pressure

Author:Terry Pratchett