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  • The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I remember one particular member of the N.S.C. staff wouldn't use e-mail because he knew they were reading it. He did a test case, kind of like the Midway battle, when we'd broken the Japanese code. He thought he'' broken the code, so he sent a test e-mail out that he knew would rile Scooter [Libby], and within an hour Scooter was in his office.

    Team   Reading   Broken  
  • I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

    Illinois   Chicago   Fans  
    "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, 1994–2010.
  • If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

    Tired   Giving   Bulls  
    "An Open Letter to Eddie Murphy" by Steve Martin, www.stevemartin.com. September 20, 2011.
  • Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

    Book   Dark   Journey  
    Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.433, Penguin
  • Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

    Courage   Men   Skills  
    Walter Lord (2012). “Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway”, p.6, Open Road Media
  • We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

    Reality   Use   Coins  
  • Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

    Edward Young (1851). “Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes”, p.77
  • The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold--the mind and the power to enjoy it.

    Wise   Men   Race  
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume”, p.124
  • The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

    Games   Literature   Toss  
    "Pigs at the Trough". Book by Arianna Huffington, New York: Crown Publishers, 1st edition ed., 2003.
  • But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

    Ocean   August   Ears  
    Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics
  • I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

    Wine   Golf   Thinking  
  • When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.

    Writing   Balls   Clown  
  • This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)

    Boys   Heaven   Dean  
  • And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

    Art   Fate   Differences  
  • Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

    Mean   Organization   Two  
  • Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

    Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC) Communique No. 3 after the Battle of Midway, June 6, 1942.
  • In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

    Life   Gone   Woods  
    Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.204, Bibliolis Books
  • We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

    "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.
  • How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

    Men   August   Deities  
    Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.9
  • Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

    Science   Links   Deities  
    Edward Young (1743). “The complaint, or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality”, p.15
  • In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness that can be lost in a single moment of forgetfulness.

  • It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.

    Trying   Century   Midway  
  • How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

    John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”
  • After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

    Fog   Battle   Pearls  
  • Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.

    Oatmeal   Storm   Battle  
  • Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

    Pride   Men   People  
    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 24, 2015
  • We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

    Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”
  • There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.

    Peace   War   College  
  • With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

    War   Self   Taught Us  
  • What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

    Lying   Boys   Bed  
    Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.131, Kent State University Press
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