Top 100 Quotes About Midst
#1. Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
George R R Martin
#2. In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
Thomas Cranmer
#3. To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace in the midst of pain is the best of all.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#4. Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell him anything about aloneness or nearness! ... He who cannot lie, will atteast to our adequacy with the warm words, Well Done.
Neal A. Maxwell
#5. In the midst of fear Lyra knelt by Lanre's body and breathed his name. Her voice was a beckoning. Her voice was love and longing. Her voice called him to live again. But Lanre lay cold and dead.
Patrick Rothfuss
#6. I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis ... This time it's us that's doing it.
Frans Lanting
#8. Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.
Sharon Salzberg
#9. In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#10. There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Karen Armstrong
#12. I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.
Frank Wolf
#13. God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.
Claude De La Colombiere
#14. There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
Edward Zwick
#15. Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.
Anne Rice
#16. Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#17. I want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemeral it is.
Christina Baker Kline
#18. We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution,
Jeff Pulver
#19. Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
Wm. Paul Young
#20. In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. It is there all the time. Here we are, in the midst of this perfect way, and our practice is simply to realize it and then to actualize it in our everyday life.
John Daishin Buksbazen
#21. Life is beautiful. It's even more beautiful when you learn to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness and in and around you.
Debasish Mridha
#22. It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#23. Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.
Wallace Carothers
#24. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of This World (179).
Alejo Carpentier
#25. We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#26. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
Virginia Woolf
#27. Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Jules Verne
#28. Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife; Love's enduring presence remains steadfast.
Eleesha
#29. Instead of preparing to die, prepare to live in the midst of all the exaltations of the Gods
Brigham Young
#30. God's heart ... is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
Mary E. DeMuth
#31. The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.
Nick Turse
#32. I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#33. Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
Haruki Murakami
#34. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. The Sessions becomes a dance of joy in the midst of severe challenge, and a movie with a light spirit that lifts a tale of heavy fate.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
#36. People talk of calf-love with wistful disdain, but mine was as intense as any emotion I knew until I crossed the frontier, years later, when I discovered that all loving is a loving of life in the midst of death.
Hugh MacLennan
#37. Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.
Richard Blackaby
#38. Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.
Li Keqiang
#39. If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.
Sun Tzu
#40. I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.
Pierre Loti
#41. My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.
Milton Friedman
#42. A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#43. Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.
Peter Heller
#44. But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#45. Conversation sprang up as to the elegance and realism of her acting -- the sort of conversation that is always repeated and is always the same. In the midst of the conversation Fedor Petrovich glanced at Ivan Ilych and became silent. The others also looked at him and grew silent. Ivan
Leo Tolstoy
#46. In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.
Hamish Bowles
#47. Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.
Gautama Buddha
#48. But it is one thing to resolve to die, quite another to actually carry out that resolve in the midst of dying. Something
N.K. Jemisin
#49. The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
With golden treasures load his little thighs,
And steer his distant journey through the skies.
John Gay
#50. Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
Henri Nouwen
#51. It's interesting, isn't it, to watch this character attempting to reconstruct herself, quite literally, in the midst of this chaos?
Liz Kay
#52. Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist and very holy in the midst of your work and contacts with the world.
Peter Julian Eymard
#53. The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.
William, Saroyan
#55. Begin now to obey Him in every way you can. Start right where you are, in the midst of all the tasks that press in upon you. Do not wait for some future time when you will have more time or be more perfect in knowledge.
Richard J. Foster
#56. We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#57. Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Marcel Proust
#58. The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.
Ken Wilber
#59. Imperialism and exploitation," he wrote, "spheres of influence, trade barriers, unequal distribution of the world's goods, starvation in the midst of plenty, slums with gold coasts next door, poverty supporting luxury: These are marks of an unChristian world.
Sara Miles
#60. Vigorous public ball scratching is common in the combat-arms side of the Marine Corps, even among high-level officers in the midst of briefings.
Evan Wright
#61. Thank You, Lord, that You are with me in everything that I face. No matter what comes against me, You are greater and more powerful. I ask You to be with me in the things I face today. I praise You and Your greatness in the midst of all that seems large and looming in my life.
Stormie O'martian
#62. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Veronica Roth
#63. Wilhelm studied Christoff and Georg. With a fair maiden in their midst, he knew his men too well to doubt their thoughts. He suddenly agreed with the dog. He didn't want them staring at her.
Melanie Dickerson
#64. In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
Peggy Fleming
#65. Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.
Perry Brass
#66. In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Right after I realized that my life was worth living.
Veronica Roth
#67. Seek the temple within, the silent place you can go in the midst of it all.
Nikki Rowe
#68. I wish I was as true an artist as you so that I could find a way to tell you what you've become to me. America, my love, you are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through sadness. You are the breeze on a too-warm day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion
Kiera Cass
#69. Above his Lord. Perhaps because Knox himself found such abundant strength in the midst of great personal weakness, he was used of God to raise
Douglas Bond
#70. I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert
a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.
Mark Twain
#71. She would rather be alone in her room than alone in the midst of a celebration she was not a part of.
Malinda Lo
#72. What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha
#73. Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Honore De Balzac
#74. A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.
William J.H. Boetcker
#75. Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship.
R.C. Sproul
#76. A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#77. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Mollie Marti
#78. Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational?
W. D. Richter
#79. As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.
Joanna Scott
#80. Every poet ... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
Thomas Carlyle
#81. We are in the midst of the evolution of capitalism from a century focused on maximizing short-term shareholder value to one focused on maximizing long-term shared value. According
Ryan Honeyman
#82. Everything in me wanted to just cross out that ridiculous 3.5-hour scheduled writing appointment and go eat fries in the midst of colored plastic tubes and screaming kids.
Lysa TerKeurst
#83. Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.
Hugh B. Brown
#84. A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.
Billy Graham
#85. It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.
Henry IV
#86. Soon this mass of ideas became harmonized, took life, seemed, as it were, to become a living individual and moved in the midst of those domains of fancy, where the soul loves to give full rein to its wild creations.
Honore De Balzac
#87. Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.
Eric Taylor
#88. Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.
Michele Bachmann
#89. An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God's hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being "simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#90. In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.
SARK
#91. Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.
Ricky Williams
#92. I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.
Ransom Riggs
#93. The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.
Thomas Wolfe
#94. In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Samuel Butler
#95. Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.
J. Michael Straczynski
#96. I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
Adolf Hitler
#97. Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.
Del Close
#98. The existential hero strives for authenticity even when it is costly, lives meaningfully in the midst of a banal, absurd world, and confronts rather than rejecting reality regardless of the personal cost.
Jason Dias
#99. Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
Philip Sidney
#100. To go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is so ineffably pure that it makes me gasp, and I feel a black and sinful object in the midst of all the spotlessness.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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