#middle

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years. ↗

— George Saunders

#built #cool #desert #disney #dubai

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied. ↗

— Dan Savage

#bullied #gay #help #high #high school

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids. ↗

— Dan Savage

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #eye #gay

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#begins #considered #epic #epic poem #like

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#middle-class #middle-class people #people #relate

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles. ↗

— Bill Scott

#involved #legal #me #middle #now

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#both #either #existence #ignorant #ignorant people

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#amazing #around #backwards #baghdad #dad

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#am #because #believe #comes #earth

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#annoying #camera #dinner #i #middle