Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone. . . This is called solitude in public. . . During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell. . . You can carry it wherever you go.
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.
In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.
The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.
Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.
The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.