Top 34 Quotes About Middling

#1. Is the human creature as perfect in function as it might be?' 'Meaningless,' replied Cabal, 'with no definition as to what that function might conceivably be. We are good communicators, passable runners, middling swimmers, and poor at flying.

Jonathan L. Howard

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#2. India's head ached. Insomnia was still her most attentive, cruelest lover, demanding and possessing her selfishly whenever it chose to do so. Light-heartedness was beyond her today. A man of middling quality was trying to marry her, and there was something wrong with her father's voice on the phone.

Salman Rushdie

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#3. When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.

Laozi

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#4. I'd also heard that humans were a life-form of, at best, middling intelligence and prone to violence, deep sexual embarrassment, bad poetry, and walking around in circles.

Matt Haig

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#5. Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

Lord Chesterfield

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#6. But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were predominant over all their passions, and they threw away their money in a most distracted manner upon those whimsies.

Daniel Defoe

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#7. The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

Lord Chesterfield

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#8. The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle ... If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.

Canvass White

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#9. The sweep of his arms was wide and athletic, more like a quarterback than a middling golfer who had dropped off the tour.

Nichole Bernier

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#10. Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Herodotus

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#11. Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

Martial

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#12. I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Walt Whitman

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#13. Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

Jean De La Bruyere

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#14. First, you must light a middling fire under the cauldron."

"What's a middling fire?"

"Medium."

I searched the pot. "Where's the ignition switch?"

Bridget leaned in and whispered, "You use magic to start the fire.

Lowvee Cole

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#15. More advice: if your message is to be printed, use high-quality paper to maximize the contrast between characters and their background. If you use color, you are more likely to be believed if your text is printed in bright blue or red than in middling shades of green, yellow, or pale blue.

Daniel Kahneman

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#16. Humbling as it may be, for all our vaunted brain power, humans emerge as nothing special in the sensory sweepstakes. Our senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are middling, at best.

Jonathan Balcombe

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#17. Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.

Ronald Reagan

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#18. Our tactics were an amazing complexity of middling targets, inconsistent scheduling, and waffling commitment.

Bernie Fipp

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#19. Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

Martial

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#20. Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Benjamin Disraeli

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#21. If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Hildegard Knef

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#22. Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.

Anita Elberse

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#23. I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.

Blythe Danner

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#24. Middling brothers. Goddamn chickens, the lot of them.

Penny Reid

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#25. The fool rushed to certain conclusions.
The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection.
And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

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#26. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

Andrzej Sapkowski

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#27. I'm not one of those fellows that is just going to have a psuedo-middling relationship.

Russell Crowe

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#28. There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

R.S. Vern

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#29. Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

Robert Breault

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#30. A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

Iris Murdoch

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#31. Looking can make you want. Wanting can get you thinking. If you want them to stop thinking, just give them what they want.

R.S. Vern

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#32. Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.

Andrew Mellon

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#33. I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Anthony Bourdain

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#34. How did, all of a sudden, my middling desire to spend quality time in another's company become overwhelming?

Rodney Ross

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