Centre Quotes · Page 4

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

— Isaac Newton

I don't really like being in the centre of attention.

— Greta Thunburg

Pique has been a great centre-back.

— Sergio Ramos

Koulibaly was always one of my favourite centre-backs.

— Jesse Marsch

It's nice to be the centre of attention among many women.

— Ben Howard

We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.

— David Pleat

My mother taught in the schools in Toronto Centre.

— Annamie Paul

I find it obvious that, in a first-past-the-post electoral system, we need to head towards the centre.

— Damian Green

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early…

— Alan Shearer

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

— Andy Murray

Centre-back is my best position. I think everyone is aware of that.

— Jamie Carragher

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

I will never go to the Centre. I have never been an aspirant for any post or for any role at the…

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.

— Philippe Petit

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

— Prince Philip

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to…

— Taiye Selasi

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God…

— C. S. Lewis

There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and…

— Robert Atkins

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction…

— Junot Diaz

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

— Lapo Elkann

My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence…

— Stephen Spender

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

— Francois Rabelais

There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris…

— Matthew Engel

To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen… But toemigrate…

— John Berger

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological…

— Thorstein Veblen

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani,…

— Rufus Wainwright

What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism,…

— John Waters

I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill…

— David Oyelowo

The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red [].…

— Pierre de Coubertin

We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that…

— John James Cowperthwaite

We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave,…

— Adam Zagajewski

It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on…

— Constantin Stanislavski

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of…

— Galileo Galilei

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had…

— Carl Sagan

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the…

— Karl Marx

In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting.…

— Pete Gill

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and…

— Linda Colley

To play full-back for Mikel Arteta, you've got to be a centre mid, a centre-back, a winger, a number 10.

— Ben White