Quotes About Middle

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

The classes of citizens are three. The rich are useless, always lusting after more. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues; their malice stings the owners. Of the three, the middle part saves cities.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

A lot of the hesitancy to talk about the industry in real, concrete terms is not because of people being afraid of biting the hand that feeds them, and more about the fear that people in the middle of the country will not be interested.

I like to play wide, but as a youth, I played more in the middle as a 10.

At Porto, I play out wide, on the right, with two other attackers. But I can play in any position in the attack, I have even played in the middle before.

My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.

A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

I was on holiday in Morocco and in the middle of nowhere some random strangers suddenly shouted out 'T4!' It was so out of the blue; l was terrified for a minute!

It was like an alien spaceship had sucked a housing estate out the middle of London, then decided it didn't like the look of it and dumped it in the middle of nowhere.

As usual the truth lies midway between these two extremes.

When the letter Shin is introduced into the middle of the word (YHVH) Jehovah, it becomes (YHShVH) Jeshuah—Jesus.

India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it, more awake and more excited than anyone, chewing on a twig that he would presently use as a toothbrush; for he borrowed right- and left-handedly from all the customs of the country he knew and loved.

Oh, but wait. It just occurred to me, maybe you don't actually know their secrets? I kind of assumed that books know everything, but maybe you're a stupid book, or a lazy book, the kind that starts in the middle because you don't know how a story begins and can't be bothered to figure it out.

Verdaderamente la vida no está en los extremos. La vida y, por tanto, la realidad del mundo, están en el medio, no en los extremos

Methwold's hair, parted in the middle has a lot to do with my beginnings. It was one of those hairlines along which history and sexuality moved.

And my grandfather, lurching upright, made a resolve. Stood. Rolled cheroot. Stared across the lake. And was knocked forever into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly disbelieve. Permanent alteration: a hole.

The passion for physical comforts is essentially a passion of the middle classes: with those classes it grows and spreads, with them it preponderates.

Angst is for the Middle Class" - Marcus in Rough Canvas

A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.