I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
When scientists do discover the center of the universe dont be disappointed that its not you — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It makes white men uncomfortable that there aren't more stories about them because it somehow is perpetuating the idea that they aren't… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
“She was the most beautiful thing in my life and my mind had settled long ago that she always would be. I… — Kahlen Aymes Copy Share Image
For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“We do it for those tiny moments when the world opens up and we're no longer alone. Those moments when we realize… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago? Hour by hour planes fly there, ships steer their course there, and trains thunder… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Hubble then made an even more amazing discovery. By measuring the red shift of the stars’ spectra (which is the light wave… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These Things, whose essential life want to express, first ask you, “Are you free? Are you prepared to devote all your love… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And you threaten to abandon us to Voldemort if we do not comply with your wishes." Harry's voice was razor-sharp. "I regret… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
To whom much is given shall much be required.2 In the new covenant we have been given such an awesome privilege to… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“You know what would be nice though?" Carter said. "Being the center of someone else's universe." Joshua looked straight at Carter. "What… — Kol Anderson Copy Share Image
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Every time we start thinking we’re the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air,… — Erika Chase Copy Share Image
God, the very creative power at the center of the universe, is loving and caring like a truly devoted parent. This love… — Morton T. Kelsey Copy Share Image
When I get back on snow, it's almost like I travel back in time to that feeling I used to have. That… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles,… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air,… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There is this amazing scene in the story: A boy and a girl, explaining the rules of Bingo, become the center of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
