Central Quotes

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We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. — Jorge Luis Borges
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. — George Lois
All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament. — Isaiah Berlin
From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what… — Saul Alinsky
I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into… — Rick Perry
In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at… — Viola Davis
Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism. — Martin Seligman
The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London,… — Gene Baur
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling… — Eleanor Holmes Norton
We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many.… — Umberto Eco
Empathy provides more than just information about relationships. It is an expression of being in relationship. It is not just a means to better healing… — Maureen O'Hara
The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the… — Mike Pence
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships,… — Emile Durkheim
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had… — George Stigler
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation… — Bruno Walter
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply… — Lee Strobel
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the… — Christopher Dawson
The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery;… — Flannery O'Connor
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough.… — Geoff Dyer
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is… — Patricia J. Williams
Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that… — George Saunders

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