Quotes of: Middle-eastern Keyword

As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Tibet, Burma and elsewhere-the truer shout is not "Never again" but "Again and again.

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Creation is not abandoned by God, it is not godless, for apart from God it would not be at all; it is not deprived of grace for it owes its existence to grace. Rather, creation is graced, it is holy; in creation God may be encountered.

Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.

Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Orson Welles

Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment that conceived of the human as a...

Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening

Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment

Legolas: We should leave now. Aragorn: No. Orcs patrol the eastern shore. We must wait for cover of darkness. Legolas: It is not the eastern shore that worries me. A shadow and a threat have been growing in my mind. Something draws near, I can feel i...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

Bashar al-Assad

The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class...

Glenn Reynolds

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to ...

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars.

Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have bee...

George Saunders

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, ...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Bob Hope

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

Cecily Strong

UKIP is natural party for Eastern Europeans

Life

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Arianna Huffington

On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.

Bill Paxton

Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)

Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit