The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.
China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.
Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.
In the middle of a novel, a kind of magical thinking takes over. To clarify, the middle of the novel may not happen in the actual geographical centre of the novel. By middle of the novel I mean whatever page you are on when you stop being part of you...
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
Fear of our own depths is the enemy.
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
