“If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.” IfsShouldStatesFightingForceNationsUnitedUnited StatesGoneMiddleIraqCanadaUnited NationsNeighbourMultinationalsMuddle Author:Peter MacKay
“Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.” MeanLittlesStillsImportantFightingMiddleLateTerroristToo LateAlsAl QaedaTerrorist AttacksSept 11 Author:John Yoo
“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.” ChildrenTwoSchoolTogetherMotherFightingFatherLevelsClassMiddleBrotherGrewGrew UpMy FamilySevenGradesMiddle ClassMiddle Class FamilyTwo Sisters Author:Muhammad Yunus
“I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether Hillary Clinton or whether any Republican candidate out there is prepared to take on the big money interests who control so much of our economy and as a result of Citizens United, our political process as well.” IfsThinkingWellsBigsPoliticalFightingProcessInterestUnitedResultsClassEconomyDoubtMiddleCitizensRepublicanPreparedClintonCandidatesMiddle ClassCitizens United Author:Lindsey Graham
“These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.” FightingDemocracyMiddleEnglandEastMiddle EastRiotingFledglingsDemocracy In The Middle East Author:Noel Gallagher
“In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.” FightingMiddleIllusionYogaKarmaDialogueBattlefieldsKarma YogaGitaFighting Through Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” ThinkingIdeasWarFightingMiddleTruth IsAbsolutesNobleRelativeVacuumsAbsolutism Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.” MenFactsHelpingFightingClassMiddleHe ManTradeUnionsIncomeIdeologyDevelopingPostsOfficialsAppropriateMiddle ClassLabourBourgeoisBourgeoisieWorking ManTrade Unions Author:George Orwell
“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.” EndsFightingPoorClassBreakStruggleRichMiddleTaxesExtraordinaryMiddle ClassAfghanistanTax BreaksMega Author:Warren Buffett
“Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.” WantFightingAsksPresidentClassMiddleSpecialIdealsFavorsMiddle ClassFairness Author:John F. Kerry
“Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil.” KnowsNeedsGivingStatesHelpingFightingEvilMiddleDefeatEastIslamicAlliesMiddle EastIslamic StateIsil Author:Carly Fiorina
“Be loved. Be known. Love people and know people. Be so brave as to raise a hand for help when you need it. Make friends and make sure they know they matter. Be loyal to them and fight for them. Remind them what’s true and invite them to do the same when you forget. If you do some losing or you walk with someone else in their defeat, live with dignity and grace. It is the middle finger to the darkness.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsMatterHelpingHandsFightingWalksForgetKnownDarknessGraceMiddleLosingDignityRaisesBraveFingersDefeatInvitesLoyalMiddle Finger Book:If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For Source: If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
“We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.” RealUsedNightFightingWhiteBreakCrazyMiddleHairBandBeerCowboyPenniesGeorgiaGuitaristBreak OutStripesWhite StripesPink HairCbgb Author:Rex Smith
“Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.” WorldWantLooksSaidHardDoneCareFightingSidesClassMiddleEasierCostDemandPressureDebtCoreTricksEnormousIncomeHealth CareOfficialsRisingMiddle ClassExpensesTrapsRelianceReducingBleedingMortgageStagnantPublic OfficialsRethinkingHealth Care CostsFighting BackEasier Said Than Done Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.” PeopleWorldWayWarStatesTogetherFightingStuffBornUnitedHalfMillionsUnited StatesFeminismMiddleDyingChangedPlanetsLifetimeConnectedWar Of The WorldsBombsEmpiresConcentrationCampsColonySecond World WarAtomic BombHiroshimaConcentration CampHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Isabel Allende
“The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?” PeopleYearsCareJobsFightingDecisionClassRichEnvironmentGrowingEconomicMiddleProtectRaisesFundamentalsHealth CareMiddle ClassAgendasGapsProgressiveDeclineWagesProtect The Environment Author:Bernie Sanders
“The first step of gratitude is to see the gift...if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you feel gratitude? You've got to fight to find the gift even in the difficulty...when you shift your perspective from the perspective of the mind because life will never make sense to your mind...mind is very logical and life is not. In order for life to make sense you've got to be out of your mind and you've got to be into your soul. When you begin to see life from the perspective of your soul then even in the midst of the worst of it you can see the gift.” IfsFeelsMindFirstsSoulProblemLife IsOrderFightingStepsMiddleWorstPerspectiveGratitudeDifficultyYour SoulMake SenseMidstLogicalFirst Steps Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight” FightingSidesChanceMiddle Author:Hillary Clinton
“Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.” ProblemFightingStrongSupportMiddleBattleEastRussiaIranVery StrongMiddle EastHungBeing ThereAssadProxyHezbollah Author:Hillary Clinton
“Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.” IfsWayGivingFeelsMadeCertainOrderTurnsFightingSoundHalfSunMiddleEventsColorWindReaderTasteLogicRefuseFleshSensesTalesShirtsConvinceAssaultTextureSleevesImprobableBelievableInsistenceFluttering Author:Ray Bradbury
“I was beating Amanda Lim to death with the tire iron, I accidently hit her in the finger. It was a fake tire iron, but it was run through with metal in the middle and when she looked up after the take, she was crying and it really hurt her and so I felt pretty terrible about that, but they got back at me when I had my big fight with Casey at the end and she just beat the bejesus out of me, being the amazing stuntwoman that she is.” EndsBigsRunningFightingFeltHurtMiddleCryTerribleBeatsFingersFakeIronMetalsTireAmandaIt Really Hurts Author:David Hayter
“God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die.” YearsLittlesWarCountryDiesFightingBitsMillionsSupportCuttingSacrificeMiddleMilitaryTaxesLittle BitDeserveTerrorEarningMillionaireWar On TerrorTax CutsPonies Author:E. J. Dionne
“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.” WantCountryMovingFightingDealsClassMiddleInvestmentCriticalDebtMoving ForwardOur CountryMiddle ClassDeficitWant UMiddle Class Family Author:Patty Murray
“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.” PeopleWantWarCountryBigsSeemsFightingMiddleStupidEastTheologyMiddle EastImpressedHuntersDeerPennsylvaniaDeer Hunter Author:Chris Matthews
“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.” PeopleCountryEnoughMomentsHomeFightingClassBreakIssuesMiddleRaisesSecureSavingOur TimeMiddle ClassRetirementStakesModestDefiningSavingsMake Or Break Author:Barack Obama
“If you're the King of Jordan, if you're a part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia and he's made this deal with Iran which gives them $150 billion to wage a war and try to extend their empire across the Middle East, why would you want to do it now? When I stand across from King Hussein of Jordan and I say to him, "You have a friend again sir, who will stand with you to fight this fight," he'll change his mind.” IfsWantGivingTryingMindMadeWarFightingDealsMiddleKingsEastBillionsEmpiresIranMiddle EastRoyalHusseinJordanArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisRoyal FamilyFriends Again Author:Chris Christie
“We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.” MomentsFightingWalksMiddleCarDrivingDramaticBathsSmack Author:Dani Shapiro
“We will not commit suicide because of pressure from the international community. A Palestinian state is not possible at the moment. I would rather fight and try to explain the situation in the Middle East to the world than to agree to steps that harm my country to satisfy the international community.” WorldTryingCountryStatesMomentsFightingCommunitySituationStepsMiddlePressureAgreeSuicideInternationalHarmEastCommitMiddle EastPalestinianInternational Community Author:Ayelet Shaked