#middle

Most safely shall you tread the middle path. ↗

— Ovid

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A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#being #between #boy #conflict #desire

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?' ↗

— Candy Crowley

#commercials #i #look #middle #really

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#bank #bank account #class #cut #know

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#been #candidates #democratic #democratic party #down

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. ↗

— Elmer Davis

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ↗

— Doris Day

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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#death #middle-class #night #out #packaged

Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: "I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #sam-gamgee #tolkien #beauty

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. ↗

— Ken Follett

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