Midland Quotes

#1. It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.

Compton Mackenzie

#2. Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I'd use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.

George W. Bush

#3. Hugh Liedtke had a simple rule of thumb: Pick a name that started with either A or Z, so you would be first or last in the telephone listings. With that in mind, the team chose Zapata Petroleum Corporation, after the Marlon Brando movie Viva Zapata!, which was playing in Midland.

Jon Meacham

#4. I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland.

Howard Warren Buffett

#5. It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.

George W. Bush

#6. The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.

Ben Midland

#7. Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#8. Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him.

Ben Midland

#9. Breathe, Emma. Now is not the time to swoon.

Eva Walker

#10. One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is a law only if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work.

Jennifer Crusie

#11. Ach, lass. Nae matter what happens, I will find you. Even if I must travel through time to a thousand different places, I promise you, I will find you.

Dawn Marie Hamilton

#12. To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

Ben Midland

#13. I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

Douglas Booth

#14. The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.

Jack McDevitt

#15. Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Alistair Cooke

#16. Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.

Aubrey Plaza

#17. Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.

Ben Midland

#18. Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Saint Augustine

#19. The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.

Ben Midland

#20. Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

Ben Midland

#21. The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.

Ben Midland