Central Quotes

1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. — Penelope Lively
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution… — Maurice Nicoll
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been. — Ben Elton
The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how… — Pico Iyer
I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without… — Charles Olson
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement… — Alan Lightman
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline… — Margaret Halsey
I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested… — Arthur Keith
The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from.… — Youssou N'Dour
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. — Carol Ann Duffy
President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans.… — Denis McDonough
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always… — Whitney Cummings
I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's… — Kate Burton
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. — Antony Beevor
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings. — Ben Bernanke
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all… — John Baldacci
I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. — Downtown Julie Brown
The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more… — Timothy Bottoms
Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level,… — Traian Basescu
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. — George Crumb
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central. — Park Chan-wook
For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor… — Sean Duffy
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences… — Jared Diamond
This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident… — John Nelson Darby

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