The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
I would say I came from upper middle class family.
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.
She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of students my age and younger [...] their lives were so cloistered and their concerns so foolish and foreign-s...
For a lot of people their conscience lives in the middle of the street.
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize...
My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already failed.
Ms Finney shared an office on the third floor with several other court reporters. Their software system was called Veritas. Theo had hacked into it before when he had been curious about something that happened in court. It was not a secure system bec...
In middle school I used to draw letters of the alphabet out of contorted torsos, bodies, arms, legs. A rigid torso with one arm and one leg extended at straight angles out would form a “K,” for example. But then I realized how silly that was. Peo...
The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
