Quotes 181 till 200 of 252.
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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
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The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
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The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
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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.
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The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!''
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
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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.
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The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.
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The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
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The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
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Theatre is the aspirin of the middle classes.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
Face it: its all your own fat fault, Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24.
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