Central Quotes

1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment. — Janet Yellen
A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand… — David Lee Roth
To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out… — Lesslie Newbigin
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them. — Jim Yong Kim
And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as… — Naomi Klein
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather. — Victoria Gotti
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how… — C.S. Lewis
I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're… — Luis de Guindos
Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now. — Peter York
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates… — Toshihiko Fukui
I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley. — Cheech Marin
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find… — Dale Rex Coman
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume… — Richard J. Foster
As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad… — Abraham Lincoln
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action. — Francis Crick
Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is… — Frederick Lenz
I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't… — Will Ferrell
I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can… — Lev Grossman
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the… — Arthur Koestler
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United… — Alan Greenspan
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is… — Thomas Sowell
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values.… — Ayn Rand
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my… — Eda LeShan

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