I didn’t cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. – Hilary Mantel
I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. – Hermann Maier
When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president. – Hillary Clinton
When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don’t go to everything in the middle. – Gautam Singhania
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. – Horatio Alger
Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. – Henry Louis Gates
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. – Harry Mathews
Fantasy gets a mixed reception – a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle. – Graham Joyce
After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first. – Howard Carter
I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery. – Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias – and rightly so. – George Ball
I’m an independent, straight in the middle. I’ve donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike. – John Paul DeJoria
I don’t like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. – Joni Mitchell
What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure. – James Mattis
In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster. – Joe Biden
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan
I have a theatrical temperament. I’m not interested in the middle road – maybe because everyone’s on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me. – Joan Didion
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan. – Jose Saramago
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. – John Hume
Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent. – Jack Keane
Certainly we’ve seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. – John Major
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class. – Joel Kinnaman
There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe. – Jack Keane
