#middle

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#grew #how #into #just #kind

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#east #full #giving #middle #middle east

The wise hero must realise how terrible it will be, when all the wealth of this world lies waste, as now in various places throughout this middle-earth walls stand, blown by the wind covered with frost, the buildings storm-swept. The halls decay, their lords lie deprived of joy, the whole hearth-troop has fallen, proud by the wall. from THE WANDERER, lines 73-80 ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful-writing #destruction #futility #haunting #middle-earth

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on. ↗

— Annabel Pitcher

#god #humor #innocent #middle-finger #privacy

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job. ↗

— Angela K. Bennett

#middle-school #school #teach #teens #humor

He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#frodo #lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #tolkien #business

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent. ↗

— Thomas Cahill

#medival #middle-ages #age

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#poetry #love

There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him. ↗

— Bob Saget

#ago #another #came #chris #chris rock

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#end #get #i #in the beginning #involved