#mid

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#billions #dollars #done #east #efforts

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#middle-age #age

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#barbarian #century #class #middle #middle class

At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#businesses #climate #countries #heading #imperative

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#country #i #i do #line #middle

The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#each #eye #first #intimidating #kind

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#eastern #i #kinds #like #listen

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#ceremony #crowd #huge #i #middle

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#contributors #exploiting #government #high #intimidate