Centre Quotes

435 quotes by 366 authors

Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete… — William S. Burroughs
Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, itâ€™s often the case that one is hated precisely because one… — Adrian Tan
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for… — Italo Calvino
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world,… — Charles Baudelaire
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that… — Khalil Gibran
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,… — Virginia Woolf
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no… — Jules Verne
He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis. — Terry Pratchett
Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I… — Jules Verne
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank,… — John Green
I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That… — John le Carre
In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other.… — Yasunari Kawabata
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning… — C.S. Lewis
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in… — W.N.P. Barbellion
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the… — Karl Popper
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and… — Galileo Galilei
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly,… — Jeanette Winterson
The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here… — Virginia Woolf
I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with… — Brother Lawrence

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