Central Quotes

1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors

A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you… — Dries van Noten
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy. — Vartan Gregorian
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. — Kofi Annan
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central… — Kenzaburo Oe
Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy. — James T. Walsh
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. — Omar Bongo
The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere.… — Antonio Guterres
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's… — Stephen F. Lynch
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how… — Stephen F. Lynch
Make Money a CENTRAL priority. Â This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power. — Danielle LaPorte
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who… — Pierre Loti
The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity… — Pentti Linkola
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are… — Herbert M. Shelton
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of… — Lord Acton
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by… — Lord Acton
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become… — Rudolf Arnheim
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may… — Alain de Botton
You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central… — Mary McCarthy
Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For… — Randy Alcorn
Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own… — Randy Wayne White
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: — Alexander Cockburn
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. — Vernor Vinge
Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of… — Urijah Faber
Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either. — Michael Bloomberg
Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of… — Jacques Monod

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