Central Quotes

1135 quotes by 922 authors

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of… — Karen Armstrong
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the… — Mary Kay Ash
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national… — Melissa Bean
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or… — Ezra Taft Benson
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting. — Diane Abbott
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment… — Ben Bernanke
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants. — Wendell Berry
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data.… — David Boies
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. — Jorge Luis Borges
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging… — Geraldine Brooks
It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual… — James Buchan
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. — Madeleine Albright
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on… — David Byrne
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of… — Christopher Alexander
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the… — David Cameron
Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly… — Nick Clegg
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that… — Sam Abell
The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the… — John Abizaid
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as… — Kofi Annan

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