Center Quotes

1632 Center quotes by 1240 unique authors

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It… — Sue Monk Kidd
When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of… — Pema Chodron
Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center. — John Green
There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all in the package… — Katy Evans
Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center… — Terry Tempest Williams
In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to… — Monica Drake
Beck behaved himself, though it was really difficult, especially during the slow dances when they were so tantalizingly close. He savoured the feel of her… — Jana Oliver
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it… — Neil Gaiman
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I… — Douglas Adams
I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's… — Jim Butcher
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women… — Elie Wiesel
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle… — Salman Rushdie
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an… — Carl Sagan
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz. — Ken Burns
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a… — John F. Kennedy
Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is… — Susan McClary
As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme… — Ward Churchill
My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window.… — Katha Pollitt
I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you… — Elihu Root
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove… — Victor J. Stenger
What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb… — Charles Baudelaire
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. — George Santayana
It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines… — Sharon Salzberg
God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and… — Brother Lawrence

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