#midst

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#because #chaos #dangerous #hysterical #idealism

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#because #breakdown #build #building #having

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#amidst #believed #darkness #escapist #even

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#biologists #essence #evolutionary #had #i

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#amidst #drawing #early #early age #had

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. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#civilization #danger #gigantic #midst #multitudes

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#blessed be #brings #childhood #down #heaven

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#bid #blessings #commerce #descending #hand

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#friendship #grows #pond #rock #share