Centre Quotes - Page 2

• I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

  Estelle Morris, Baronesa Morris de Yardley

  School, Form, Left

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• Dios me había puesto de rodillas y me había hecho reconocer mi propia nada, y de ese conocimiento había renacido. Yo ya no era el centro de mi vida y, por tanto, podía ver a Dios en todo.

  Bede Griffiths

  Dios, Pascua, Yoga

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• Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

  Lillian Russell

  New Chapter In Life, Chapters

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• Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

  Robert Musil

  Running, People, Together

  Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser (1986). “Five Women”, p.124, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Ashes, Heat, Explosions

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• I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

  Piper Perabo

  Girl, People, Way

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• In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

  Peter Singer

  Respect, Unique, Thinking

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• Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

  Derek Walcott

  Memories, Bamboo, Body

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Believe, Rights, Fundamentals

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• At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Community, Good Christian, Christianity

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• Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Art, Believe, Men

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.269, University of Chicago Press

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• En muchas de las cosas que hace la gente, ellos mismos son el centro de atención, pero inscriben algún otro nombre en su estandarte.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Names, People, Attention

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• Una niña pequeña es un centro de sentimientos comunes que hace que las personas más dispares se entiendan.

  George Eliot

  Chica, Gente, Sentimientos

  George Eliot (2016). "Escenas de la vida clerical: Top Novelist Focus", p.225, 谷月社.

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• Hay un tono de moralidad en todos los distritos rurales de Inglaterra, que desgraciadamente falta en las grandes ciudades y en los centros de manufacturas particulares.

  Henry Mayhew

  Towns, Tone, England

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

  Ray Manzarek

  Successful, Doors, Band

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• I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

  Cheech Marin

  Cards, Movement, Resistance

  "Back with a bong" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

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• God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mind, Spheres, Senses

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.111, Anchor

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• Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

  Narendra Modi

  Desire, Energy, India

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• Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

  Stephen Graham

  Life, Science, Events

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• The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.

  Karl Marx

  País, Medio, Ganar

  "The Karl Marx Library: On revolution".

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• With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each throb has sent pain and decay to the lands whose day was done, life and vigour to those whose day was yet to be.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Life, Pain, Science

  Ellsworth Huntington (1907). “The Pulse of Asia: A Journey in Central Asia Illustrating the Geographical Basis of History”

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• We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.

  Northrop Frye

  Espacio

  "Northrop Frye on Religion: Excluding The Great Code and Words with Power".

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• The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Determination, Men, Views

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• Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.

  Ian Fleming

  Long, Chinese, Nests

  Ian Fleming (1961). "bonos dorados"

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• Cuando me preguntan por mis influencias, siempre digo que me inclino ante Fred Astaire, porque cuando le ves bailar nunca te fijas en sus extremidades, ¿verdad? Te fijas en su centro. Lo que nunca ves son las horas de trabajo que dedicaba a sus rutinas, sólo ves su impresionante espíritu y libertad.

  Alan Rickman

  Baile, Looks, Lazos

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