I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
~By Austan Goolsbee ~
I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.
~By Hilary Duff ~
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.
~By Jerome Corsi ~
I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.
~By Teena Marie ~
There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
~By Nathan Lane ~
Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
~By Rick Larsen ~
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
~By Louise Bogan ~
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
~By Richard Hughes ~
We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.
~By Mary-Kate Olsen ~
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
~By Jessamyn West ~
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.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
~By Sting ~
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
~By Martha Beck ~
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
~By Daniel Johns ~
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
~By John Ciardi ~
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
~By Ayn Rand ~
We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.
~By David Axelrod ~
And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
~By Don Marquis ~
I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.
~By Paul Bremer ~
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
~By Natalie Goldberg ~
From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.
~By Jesse James ~
It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
~By Aaron Neville ~
I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.
~By John Shimkus ~
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
~By Doris Day ~
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
~By Mary Roberts Rinehart ~
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
~By Ogden Nash ~
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
~By King Hussein I ~
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
~By Warren Buffett ~
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
~By David Wenham ~
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
We in middle age require adventure.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
~By Ken Follett ~
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
~By Jack Kingston ~
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
~By John Grierson ~
Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
~By Willie Stargell ~
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
~By Emo Philips ~
I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.
~By Benmont Tench ~
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
~By Ric Ocasek ~
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
~By Tony Benn ~
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
~By Anatole Broyard ~
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
~By Black Elk ~
I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher.
~By Richard Drew ~
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
~By Candice Bergen ~
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
~By Gene Tunney ~
If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
~By Elizabeth Perkins ~
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
~By Elmer Davis ~
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
~By Jay Kay ~
They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
~By Dinah Sheridan ~
I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.
~By Dick Cheney ~
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
~By Anne Rice ~
I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.
~By Lee Majors ~
I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.
~By Gregory Peck ~
They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
~By James Stockdale ~
I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!
~By Alvin Lee ~
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.
~By Mike Davidson ~
I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
~By Barack Obama ~
You will go most safely in the middle.
~By Ovid ~
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
~By Ron Silver ~
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.
~By Amanda Holden ~
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job losses to 15 straight months of job gains, cut taxes 26 times, and focused like a laser on getting the middle class back on its feet while those campaigning to replace him have failed to show they can lead on these issues.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.
~By Michael Davis ~
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
~By Saul Bellow ~
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
~By Candice Bergen ~
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
~By Anne Tyler ~
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
~By C. S. Forester ~
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
~By Charles Schumer ~
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.
~By Nick Clooney ~
January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
~By Mike Watt ~
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