#mid

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.' ↗

— Julia Stiles

#begin #boo #comes #delay #first

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#class #classes #crush #each #extreme

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity. ↗

— John Sununu

#authenticity #candidate #conviction #convincing #core

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#breadth #child #class #climb #economy

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#condition #could #i #middle #mother

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#another #class #cuts #economic #economic policies

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#look #middle-class #must #safety

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

#day #either #even #every #every day

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#generals #i #knights #like #middle

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#amplification #attach #between #dialogue #east