Central Quotes

1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed… — Paul Cezanne
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us… — Paul Klee
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so. — Northrop Frye
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of… — Alain de Botton
The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake… — Carl Hiaasen
Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep… — Elizabeth Hurley
The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can… — Janet Reno
We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his… — Kevin Watkins
China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird… — Wen Jiabao
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us… — Roy Baumeister
The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a whole - this… — Hans Richter
Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls… — Leigh Hunt
Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and… — Gregory A. Boyd
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. — Will Rogers
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced… — Erasmus Darwin
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore… — Bayard Taylor
Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different… — C.S. Lewis
The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state… — Joseph Plaskett
You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data,… — Tan Le
What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want… — Thomas P. Campbell
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked… — Laurie Garrett
There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last… — Henry Adams
Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in… — Linda Gray
Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to… — Josef von Sternberg
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built. — Margaret Way

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