Midst Quotes

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. (Indira Gandhi)
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
I am life that with to live in the midst of other life that wills to live. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. View quote
William Cowper
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. View quote
James Madison
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. View quote
Edmund Burke
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. View quote
Bernard Baruch
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. View quote
Emil Cioran
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. (George W. Bush)
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. View quote
Richard Bach
We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them. View quote
Dion Fortune
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. View quote
John Calvin
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. View quote
Lucretius
In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them. View quote
Vitruvius
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? View quote
Lord Byron
It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. (Pope John Paul II)
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. View quote
Pierre Loti
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. View quote
Arthur Henderson
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. View quote
Kathy Mattea
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. View quote
Lindsey Buckingham