Quotes with center

  • Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
  • If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?
  • Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
  • When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
  • One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
  • Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
  • We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.
  • America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
  • Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
  • And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays ... the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Ann Druyan A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Cass Canfield A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
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  • George Eliot A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alan Cohen Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Norman Mailer America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • C. Wright Mills America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Allen Klein And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Bobby Ray Inman As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.
    Bobby Ray Inman
     
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  • Martin Luther King At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Daniel Day Lewis Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
    Daniel Day Lewis
     
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  • Ben Folds But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Kelvin Throop III Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
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  • Thomas Merton Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • E. M. Cioran Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Samuel Huntington Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Voltaire God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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