Quotes with middle

Quotes 61 till 80 of 225.

  • Adam Walinsky If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.
    Adam Walinsky
    American Lawyer, Speechwriter (1937 - )
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  • Alexander Pope If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Angela Davis In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Barack Obama 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.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bill Condon In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • E. B. White In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • John Adams In politics the middle way is none at all.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bjork In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Barack Obama In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Robert Runcie In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
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  • John Millington Synge In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Albert Einstein In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Eliot In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Arianna Huffington Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Bobby Schilling Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adam Michnik Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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