Centre Quotes - Page 9

• My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

  Tony Blair

  Strong, Winning, Views

  "Meet the new Labour adviser: Tony Blair" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2012.

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• As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.

  Evan Davis

  Country, Couple, Nice

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• If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

  Alexei Sayle

  Cities, Cobblers, Charity

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• So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Possibility Of Change, Miracle, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.9, Penguin

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• New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Art, New York, Believe

  "Nowt as queer as folk" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2003.

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• Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Circles, Silence

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• 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 that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.

  Italo Calvino

  New York, America, Horror

  Italo Calvino (2014). “Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Stars, Memories

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• 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 one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.

  Jules Verne

  Uncles, Silence, Design

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.28, Jules Verne

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• 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 pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

  Jules Verne

  Mind, Earth, Masters

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• He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

  Terry Pratchett

  Circles, Enemy, Moved On

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• 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, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

  John Green

  Fall, Thinking, Years

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• 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 if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.

  John le Carre

  Cat, Compassion, Spy

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• In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define and which lies beyond the realm of obvious poetic technique.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Lying, Writing, Technique

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Science, Men

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• In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that remain a mystery, the modern preference is for side-footed placement and so the dilemma of goalkeepers has changed from whether to take a guess at dive right or left to if they should dive at all. Or at least that ought to have been their reappraisal. Almunia was feted as the hero in Rome but had he and Doni stayed in the centre of their goal then the number of saves they made in the shoot-out would have been doubled.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

  Jon Weber

  Friday, Character, Sacrifice

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• The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

  Tacitus

  Dwelling, Race, Tree

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• As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.

  Simon McBurney

  Writing, Mean, Theatre

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• It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Expression

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• There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

  John Wain

  Artist, Theatre, Fables

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• But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".

  Bernadette Roberts

  Home, Self, Track

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.23, SUNY Press

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• Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Blessed, Land, Foundation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.57, editionNEXT.com

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• In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, India, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.251, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Self, Consciousness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

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