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Gathering threads always break in the middle.

Gathering threads always break in the middle.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

If your VCR is set to tape your favorite program every day, and you find that at certain times it is taping nothing but reruns that you've already seen, the VCR tape will run out in the middle of the only program that you haven't already seen.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about haven, contentment, nothing, day

If you lose a merc through death or end of contract, you'll be in the middle of nowhere and be forced to leave behind his/her heavy gear: This is most commonly your heavy weapons expert who carried a few LAWs and your mortar.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about death, end, contentment

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about education, children, country, world

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

Quote by Francis Parkman about country, home, house, being

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Quote by Andy Partridge about fear, purity

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

Quote by Mandy Patinkin about peace

Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the...

Quote by Ron Paul about home, americans, war

I think that it is the Americans, more than Israel, who...

I think that it is the Americans, more than Israel, who wish to keep France from playing a role in the Middle East.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about country, americans, wish

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in...

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Quote by Ian Fleming about animals, end

It is one of the consolations of middle-aged reformers...

It is one of the consolations of middle-aged reformers that the good they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Quote by Saki about opinion, good, good luck

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age...

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

Quote by Mark Amend about youth, night, age, olderness, thinking

The link between the Polish and Romanian literature transpires in aproaching common motives: Sobieski, Cosmin Forests, Despot Voda, maiden Ruxandra, motiveswhich are highlighting the most important moments of historical relations between Moldova...

Quote by Constantin Geambasu about literature, common sense

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.

Quote by Roger Vernon Scruton about opinion, garden, seduction, blood, sex, home, age, olderness, fire, fire brigade

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely...

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt about age, olderness, youth, life

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