Centre Quotes - Page 21

I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.

Andrew Davies

Mother, Work Out, Trying

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Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

Robert Hughes

Art, Add, Process

Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, Knopf

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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

Isaac Newton

Beautiful, Wise, Stars

Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1023, Delphi Classics

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Do you wake up in the morning and first thing, centre yourself by looking at your palms together? Thereby have a nice day.

Swami Veda Bharati

Morning, Nice, Together

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Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

P. D. James

Country, Cities, Office

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I need at least two months to try and figure out where the centre of the bat is.

Sachin Tendulkar

Two, Trying, Bats

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It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.

Douglas Adams

Long, Doe, Monkeys

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.133, Del Rey

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Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists.

Shelly Glover

Art, Government, Support

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Think light! Try to impart a feeling of lightness to the body. Think light. This can be achieved by mentally extending yourself outwards from the centre of the body, i.e., think tall. Think not just of raising your arms but of extending them outwards and when you are holding them still, think again of reaching still further away from your body. Do not think of yourself as a small compressed suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding - no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Thinking, Light, Feelings

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All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ideas, Brave, Belief

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In this chaotic world where everything is moving and turning, one's partner should be like the centre of a wheel which never moves and always remains still.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Moving, World, Wheels

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As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Adrienne Clarkson

Country, People, Shelter

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Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Christian, Rome, Community

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There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?

Phillips Brooks

Country, Two, Safety

Phillips Brooks (2007). “The Purpose and Use of Comfort”, p.182, Cosimo, Inc.

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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

Andy Goldsworthy

Cities, People, Done

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Street circuits mean that we are racing in the centre of roads that people use everyday, which is very cool for drivers, but it also makes it very easy to make a mistake, which adds more excitement for fans.

Sam Bird

Mistake, Mean, People

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This is a very special Greek kind of socialist, all the social democratic parties in Europe are against this idea and I think that the dividing line today in the Greek political system is not the centre right or socialist, the real dividing line is between those parties and those political forces who really believe that Greece should stay in the Eurozone and make the efforts and change, and make the reforms and change the old and Mr Tsipras who is really resisting any kind of change in Greece.

Dora Bakoyannis

Real, Party, Believe

Source: www.sbs.com.au

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No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Archibald Alexander Hodge

Christ, Truth Is, Relation

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People say I try to be the centre of attention, but I think I just try to make people laugh.

Jack P. Shepherd

Thinking, People, Laughing

"Interrogation: Jack P Shepherd". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the “whole man” in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories...but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity.

E. F. Schumacher

Men, Views, Doubt

"Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.

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I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Joy, Soul, Asking

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.21, Zondervan

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As long as we place millions of Indians at the centre of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self-realisation we are on the right track.

Mukesh Ambani

Opportunity, Thinking, Self

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

John Milton

Light, May, Enjoy

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I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'

Elizabeth A. Johnson

Strong, Communication, Vegetables

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I press to my centre, and find there is something there.

Virginia Woolf

Presses

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