The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his...
The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up... A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more...
So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have ...
Narrator: [singing a bomb drill ditty] Time to duck and cover, the bombs are comin' down. The radiation shower will pour throughout your town. Hands over your head; keep low to the ground. Time to duck and cover, the bombs are comin' down. Duck and c...
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
Please don't talk into the middle of other people's crotch!
It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.
I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.
I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
Comfort came in with the middle classes.
