Quotes of: Middle-eastern Keyword

I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

Patrick Fischler

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Herodotus

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

Anthony Rapp

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

Life

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The English-language press in India supports the project of corporate globalization fully. It has no time for dispossession and drought and farmers' debts, the ravages that the corporate globalization project is wreaking on the poor of India. So to s...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Of every ten who tread the Middle Way to Knowledge there are nine who turn aside through avarice, though not all avarice is born of belly-hunger or the greed for gold. Some seek preeminence, such eminence as they have won corroded by insane pride. So...

The Devil's Guard

Simon blinked himself awake, confused, for a moment, why he was in a dungeon that smelled of dung rather than his Brooklyn bedroom - then, once he got his bearings, confused all over again about why he was being awoken in the middle of the night by a...

The Evil We Love

One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in our class, was run over by a New York City bound train right in the center of town. Our classmate left sch...

The Many Loves of Mila

THE PLAQUE read HARVEY GOULD, P I. It was the middle of the day, but the blinds were closed. Inside a desktop sat flanked by three non-matching chairs, a creased, leather sofa and a bookcase full of fiction. A middle-aged man lay back with a pair of ...

Lost Innocence

Oh, here we are at the bridge. I'm going to shut my eyes tight. I'm always afraid going over bridges. I can't help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jackknife and nip us. So I shut my eyes. But I always h...

L.M. Montgomery

In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic radicalism. "In our island, we knew we would prevail, that the Americans would b...

What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

Jeffrey Tate

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.

Keith Ellison

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

Pamela Adlon

I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

Mary Ann Mobley

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

...don't be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.

Middle Ground

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Lock and Key