Central Quotes

1135 Central quotes by 894 unique authors

Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary quality of the… — Marcus Borg
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the… — Carl Rogers
The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence… — Hermann Joseph Muller
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of… — Ludwig von Mises
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an… — Lewis Thomas
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other… — Antony Gormley
Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with… — Sufjan Stevens
When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South… — Warren Moon
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close… — Jeremy Grantham
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though… — Clay Shirky
Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources. — Seth Priebatsch
One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things. — Erez Lieberman Aiden
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly… — Hendrik Poinar
I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to… — Loretta Napoleoni
I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste,… — Natalie Jeremijenko
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a… — Martin Seligman
When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden. — Keeley Hawes
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech… — George Steiner
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because… — Rajneesh
One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in… — Kevin DeYoung
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In… — Greg Graffin
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a… — Ryne Sandberg

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