We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
~By Alain de Botton ~
We are in the middle of an education recession.
~By Rod Paige ~
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 global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
~By Dan Quayle ~
I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.
~By George Galloway ~
He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.
~By George Schultz ~
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
~By Betty Buckley ~
Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
~By Brad Bird ~
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
~By Candice Bergen ~
I'm painfully middle class.
~By Valerie Harper ~
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
~By Adam Michnik ~
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.
~By Sandy Duncan ~
But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.
~By Meredith Baxter ~
You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
~By Barack Obama ~
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
~By Emanuel Ax ~
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
~By Florida Scott-Maxwell ~
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 ~
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
~By Cornelia Funke ~
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
~By Orson Welles ~
I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
~By Hans Blix ~
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
~By Paul Simon ~
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.
~By Terry Savage ~
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
~By Silvan Shalom ~
I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
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 ~
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
~By Jim Hightower ~
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
~By Mike Myers ~
Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
~By Donna Mills ~
At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
~By Andy Partridge ~
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
~By Chiwetel Ejiofor ~
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
~By Jane Rule ~
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
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 ~
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 never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
~By Peter Max ~
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
~By Sting ~
The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
~By Ben Shahn ~
You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.
~By Marvin Hagler ~
Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s.
~By Jam Master Jay ~
The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
~By Anna Lindh ~
When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.
~By Brandon Thomas ~
Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.
~By Lisa Loeb ~
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 think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
~By Mike Watt ~
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 ~
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
~By Steve McQueen ~
The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.
~By Ethan A. Hitchcock ~
Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
~By David Hackworth ~
Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.
~By Daisy Donovan ~
We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.
~By John W. Snow ~
We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.
~By Rick Larsen ~
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
~By Chris Chocola ~
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
~By Tom Daschle ~
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
~By Dan Marino ~
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
~By Harold Coffin ~
Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
~By Anne Dudley ~
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
~By Vilhjalmur Stefansson ~
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
~By Marvin Harris ~
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
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 ~
I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.
~By Henry Ossawa Tanner ~
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 ~
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
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 ~
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.
~By Jerome Corsi ~
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
~By John Hughes ~
Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.
~By Brian Celio ~
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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