Center Quotes

1632 Center quotes by 1240 unique authors

He’d spent his life being a perfect gentleman. He’d never been a flirt. He’d never been a rogue. He hated being the center of attention,… — Julia Quinn
Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth.… — Haruki Murakami
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the… — Charles Baudelaire
Good. Now the first thing you do is press in the clutch and slide the gear into reverse." She placed his hand on the gear… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it… — Chris Cleave
You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment.… — Jonathan Nolan
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only… — Mary Oliver
Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because… — Hermann Hesse
Just in case, though, I stormed into my apartment, tossed a quick hello to Mr. Wong, then rummaged through my entertainment center to lay out… — Darynda Jones
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for… — May Sarton
You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but… — Corrie Ten Boom
When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know… — Ahmed H. Zewail
True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger… — Kathleen Norris
The phone rang in the comm. center. Ian consulted the monitor. "It's Dan." He pressed a button. "Kabra here." Dan's voice crackled through the attic.… — Gordon Korman
And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the… — Jennifer Egan
Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like tissue paper, it… — Rob Thurman
She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't… — Laini Taylor
Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is… — Cate Tiernan
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man — Rollo May
Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a… — Scott Westerfeld
In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden… — Rick Riordan
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us.… — Marie Howe

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