Central Quotes

1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people… — Dhani Jones
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And… — Nikolai Berdyaev
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose… — Hunter S. Thompson
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us… — C.S. Lewis
The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior… — George Will
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and… — George Will
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it… — Murray Rothbard
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour,… — Stephen Leacock
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles… — Gerald Stanley Lee
When I turn on my central air conditioner, I feel like, "Wow, I really have come a long way." Or buying the super expensive organic… — Kristin Bauer van Straten
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. — Milton Friedman
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz
I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think… — Ellie Goulding
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms,… — Brian Greene
Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a… — Gail Collins
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have… — Gail Collins
South Central is just who I am. — Ice Cube
When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie. — Ice Cube
Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my… — Ice Cube
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. — Umberto Eco
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. — Marian Wright Edelman
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to… — Paul Farmer
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games… — Raymond E. Feist

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