Top 1200 Caught In The Middle Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.

There was plays where I had to do certain things, but I wouldn't even know who caught the ball because I was so focused on getting my job done.

Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.

I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.

I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.

Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.

The only thing that would keep me from winning the election is to be caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy

My greatest strength as a person? I guess I get caught in it a lot, but I think it's my ability to put myself in someone else's shoes.

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

Everybody gets caught up in everything, but at the end of the day we're all just here for a short time, so we may as well enjoy it.

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

Ashlee Simpson kicking her dressing room door after getting caught lip-synching - that was interesting to watch.

I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

I caught my wife in bed with my best friend the other day. I was crushed. They could have waited till I'd got out.

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to then call it what it really is, which is a mini-series. "24" is a really good example, in that there was a definitive beginning, middle and end for the first season. They had a slightly different format than we have, but the second season just retained Jack Bauer and a few other players, with the same basic format and idea, but it was a completely different show.

It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.

A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

It's so easy to get caught up in doing and achieving that we often neglect to make time to be with the people we care about most.

Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of it.

I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

What is happening right now? That in itself, is an exercise. Because you can get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow and missing their moment that they're actually in.

I got caught shoplifting, which is not good. I was stealing for this boy that I went with at the time, and I ended up getting a three-month punishment.

To me, I never get too caught up in the position thing. At the end of the day, you're playing your game.

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies - represents people who are not the middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton.

Social media - It's not real life. I only caught the tail end of it in high school. It can be good, and it can be fun, but you can't let it get toxic.

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.

You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple of swerves off the path, we need to look back and see that we've always also been a racist country and have had a tendency towards banal aggressiveness. The thing that's alarming is not so much that a few people in America at the top are initiating these crazy policies, but that the middle is willing to go there too. There's a strange movement of the middle to this position of banal aggressiveness.

Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!