Top 1200 Middle Way Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Payroll savings plans are vital because they are essentially the only way that middle-class Americans reliably save for retirement.

The best way to fry an egg is to let the white out so it forms a base, then drop the yellow bit in the middle.

There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.

I'm never going to understand what Middle America wants, because I'm on a show that Middle America doesn't necessarily like but I think is really funny.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the West. That's where they sought their security; I don't think there was a way to avoid that. If we tried to exclude them, we would have today not one Europe, we would have three Europes: one in the West, one in the middle and one in the East, and the middle would be insecure and a tempting target. The insecurity felt [today] by Eastern Europe would be replicated on a much larger and more consequential scale.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

I really wanted to take 'Dilbar' to Africa and the Middle East in Arabic because it was also a perfect way to launch myself.

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

A fundamental way to build and expand our middle class and economy is to create a modern and well-paid workforce.

Brows should begin directly above the middle of your nostrils. The highest point of the arch should connect the tip of the nose with the middle of the iris.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

I've discovered that sometimes God wants us to live inside of the questions. Sometimes he wants us to linger in the waiting, hoping, praying. In fact, sometimes it's right in the middle of our darkness in the middle of our crisis, in the middle of our Plan B struggles that God speaks most clearly.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.

In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds!

All Christian religions are outer-directed. "Who can I convert?" "Let's go to this country and make them Christians." "Wear this." "Do that." "No, don't worship that way. Worship this way or I'll kill you - for the good of your soul, of course." Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

I'm the middle-class kid; it doesn't sound exciting, but a lot of my audience is middle-class kids.

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

I think the public is very reluctant to get involved in more foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. And they understand, implicitly, that we go to war in the Middle East because of oil. And if we don't want to go to war in the Middle East, then we have to do something about the oil problem. And I think that view is gaining ground in the U.S.

The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.

It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek to undermine their independence in every way possible. With seductive 'entitlements' like guaranteed retirement, health care, nutrition, education, and jobs, liberals attempt to lure the middle class into dependence on the state. But when it comes to those who are truly incompetent, those whose mental afflictions render them unable to manage their lives at all, liberals are suddenly transformed into absolutists for personal autonomy.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

Being from the Middle East paired with my upbringing in the United States had pretty polarising effects on the way I perceive beauty.

Unions sustained and fed the middle class. It's no coincidence that as union membership has continued to dwindle, so have the fortunes of the middle class.

She turns her head, Bailey catches her eye, and she smiles at him. Not in the way that one smiles at a random member of the audience when one is in the middle of performing circus tricks with unusually talented kittens but in the way that one smiles when one recognizes someone they have not seen in some time.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.