“My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?” PeopleWorldWayShouldRealUseChristianAmericaGoalChurchClassIssuesMiddleExampleGloryMiserySpendingLifestyleSettingSettingsOur FamilyMiddle ClassFundStewardshipDiversionRobbingTithingBiblical StewardshipTrust Funds Author:John Piper
“My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.” IfsShouldHardAbleClassMiddleHard WorkRaisesMissionsIncomeMiddle ClassGet AheadMiddle Class Family Author:Bernie Sanders
“At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.” ShouldHeartEndsStoriesAbleFilmPowerfulAttentionAudienceSuccessfulMiddleEmotionalIntellectualNarrativeDramaticCaptureViewersArcsProtagonistsBeginning Middle And End Author:Julia Bacha
“The sanctions and travel restrictions would have to be far more comprehensive to be truly painful for [Vladimir] Putin and his inner circle. And the new middle class should also feel the effects of what he is doing. For instance, we should ask those who wish to enter the EU whether they have visited illegally occupied Crimea in the last few months and, if the answer is "yes," deny them a visa.” IfsFeelsShouldLastsAsksWishAnswersClassMiddleEffectsMonthsPainfulDenyCirclesInstanceMiddle ClassRestrictionPutinComprehensiveSanctionsVisaCrimea Author:Garry Kasparov
“It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.” WorldShouldWould BeCoursesPeaceCommunityLossMiddleWeaponsMassDestructionFoundationInternationalProsperitySpreadTerrorismEastJapanRegionsStabilityMiddle EastWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionInternational Community Author:Shinzo Abe
“So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.” PeopleShouldTryingYearsBelieveJobsClassMillionsEconomyMiddleTaxesRaisesAgreeBillsClintonRateFolksIncomeRadicalPlentyBudgetsMiddle ClassBootsSmall BusinessMillionaireIncome TaxBack WhenSurplusNew JobJust BelieveMiddle Class Family Author:Barack Obama
“When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.” PeopleWorldShouldHappensNightFallDecisionCompanySupportMiddleCrisisDollarsMeetingsAllowingAssetsCrucialEmergenciesRapidsTaxpayersChaoticMiddle Of The NightDissolutionEmploying Author:Barack Obama
“One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.” PeopleThinkingShouldMindArtRealSchoolYoungHumanityNiceMiddleExampleCollegeWestBroadsPastorLiberal ArtsLinguistsLiberal Arts College Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"” ThinkingNeedsShouldIdeasSometimesJobsFilmStuffProcessRealizingMiddleSceneConstantGood IdeasExploring Author:Noomi Rapace
“Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.” ShouldRealityAmericaLostCasesDemocracyMiddleConcernFundamentalsSpreadEastContactSecureMarchMiddle EastRetreatRealistDemocracy In The Middle East Author:George W. Bush
“When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.” PeopleShouldLawAsksAnswersPayRichMiddlePercentIncome Author:Ralph Nader
“Stubbornness should have been my middle name.” ShouldHas BeensNamesMiddleShould HaveShould Have BeenStubbornness Author:Martin Luther
“I hope that things will change, because it's a pity that a country like Iran is not where it should be, or where it has been historically. It's important for Iran, for all of the Middle East, and also for the rest of the world.” WorldShouldHas BeensImportantCountryMiddleEastPityIranMiddle East Author:Farah Diba
“I have 236 movies on my queue and I feel like I should always be watching movies. Like if I wake up in the middle of the night and don't fall directly back to sleep, I'm like, 'I've been up for an hour and a half I could have watched 'Toy Story 3' by now.' In this economy it is a sin not to be watching movies when you have Netflix.” IfsFeelsShouldStoriesNightFallHoursSleepSinHalfEconomyMiddleWake UpToysMiddle Of The NightNetflixQueuesSins NotToy Story 3 Author:Gary Gulman
“I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldFirstsDreamLastsLeftPiecesMiddleOceanClingingDriftwood Author:Kevin Costner
“I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.” WayFeelsShouldPersonsMiddleSittingNervousRestaurantsJudgedBeing JudgedMisconstrued Author:Rachel Hunter
“I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.” PeopleThinkingShouldSeeingMiddleSpringWesternStartingFeministOptimisticExceptionRegionsEditorsSquaresArticlesStereotypeArab SpringTahrir Square Author:Annia Ciezadlo