Centre Quotes - Page 6

• Las fuerzas aéreas ofrecían la posibilidad de atacar los centros económicos y morales del enemigo sin tener que lograr primero "la destrucción de las principales fuerzas del enemigo en el campo de batalla". El poder aéreo podía alcanzar un fin directo por medios indirectos, saltando por encima de la oposición en lugar de derrocarla.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Militar, Medio, Aire

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• When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.

  Joseph Hertz

  Christian, Writing, Years

  Isidore Epstein, Joseph Herman Hertz (1935). “The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma”

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• Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

  Kevin Powers

  Spiritual, Military, Taken

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• I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

  George Osborne

  Want, Financial, Britain

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• What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Differences, Attention, Concentration

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• Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "La Segunda Venida" l. 1 (1921)

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• All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Eye, Shadow

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• For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

  Len Cariou

  Jobs, Theatre, Acting

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• Había una cosa que importaba; una cosa, envuelta en cháchara, desfigurada, oscurecida en su propia vida, dejada caer cada día en corrupción, mentiras, cháchara. Esto lo había conservado. La muerte era un desafío. La muerte era un intento de comunicación; la gente sentía la imposibilidad de alcanzar el centro que, místicamente, les eludía; la cercanía se alejaba; el éxtasis se desvanecía, uno estaba solo. Había un abrazo en la muerte.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lying, People, Feelings

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.184, Broadview Press

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• How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Determination, Thinking, Choices

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Mar 05, 2017

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• Nos resulta difícil imaginarnos el estado mental de un hombre de antaño que creía firmemente que la Tierra era el centro del Universo y que todos los cuerpos celestes giraban a su alrededor. Podía sentir bajo sus pies los retorcimientos de los condenados en medio de las llamas; muy probablemente había visto con sus propios ojos y olido con sus propias narices los vapores sulfurosos del Infierno que escapaban de alguna fisura en las rocas. Mirando hacia arriba, contempló... el firmamento incorruptible, en el que las estrellas colgaban como otras tantas lámparas.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Eye, Science

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• There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

  Nicolás de Cusa

  Habla

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• The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own beginning and end; and that would mean that there was some other thing which imposed a limit to the world - another being existing in space outside the world. All of these conclusions are false. Since, then, the world cannot be enclosed within a material circumference and centre, it is unintelligible without God as its centre and circumference.

  Nicolás de Cusa

  Mean, Space, Beginnings And Ends

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• Si el Tao pudiera servirse, todo el mundo se lo serviría a sus señores. Si el Tao pudiera ofrecerse, no hay nadie que no lo ofreciera a sus padres. Si se pudiera hablar del Tao, no hay nadie en el mundo que no hablara de él a sus hermanos y hermanas. Si se pudiera transmitir el Tao, no hay nadie que no lo transmitiera a sus herederos. Sin embargo, es evidente que no puede ser así y la razón es la siguiente. Si no hay un verdadero centro interior que lo reciba, no puede permanecer; si no hay una verdadera dirección exterior que lo guíe, no puede ser recibido.

  Zhuangzi

  Hermano, Padre, Mundo

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• Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

  Carl Sagan

  Greek, Humanity, Library

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]". TV series, 1990.

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• Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside - the noise of the train far away; something is happening in you body - your knees are hurting - right? Your mind is churning many thoughts, that 'What am I doing here?' Your heart is feeling many emotions, you have waited for this moment for so long. There is joy in the heart, a certain ecstasy, a mood, a receptivity. All those things have to be watched very minutely.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Heart, Long

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• Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Horse, Real

  Heartbreak House (1919) act 3

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• A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

  George Washington Carver

  Caring, Science, Self

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• All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Wisdom, Mind

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• I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.

  Mark Messier

  Team, Hockey, Winning

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• The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at the floor, you can look up. It's not your role to follow the others. It's your role to go to your centre and then reflect that, not just to be a mirror to what's happening.

  James T. Hubbell

  New York, Acceptance, Artist

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• Después de mi última audición para "Juego de Tronos", me dijeron: "Enhorabuena, princesa". Yo estaba como, 'Bye-bye, centro de llamadas.'

  Emilia Clarke

  Congratulations, Princess, Games

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• [...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound.

  Jean Vanier

  Loneliness, Fleeing, Way

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• All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our unique sense of touch. Two approaching objects touch one another when they finally meet without a noticeable space between them. ... This is what happens in any condensing matter in which the outer aspects move towards a centre... Each single part of matter approaches its neighboring part until the two collide, causing an impact or a pressure. It is space, which appears and disappears between and round object and in the movements of the particles of the object.

  Rudolf von Laban

  Philosophy, Moving, Unique

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• Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Suffering, Resolution

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.547, Delphi Classics

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