Centre Quotes - Page 22

• With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Girl, Mother, Inspiration

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda". Book by Swami Vivekananda, Volume 7, Conversations And Dialogues,

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• The players must be at the centre of their industry.

  Rob Andrew

  Player, Industry

  "Onward with Rob" by Eddie Butler, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2006.

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• As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of view, it's a rather wasted argument because, if we regard areas of information as being elite and therefore somehow not usable, it means our centre-ground of activity becomes very, very impoverished.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mean, Views, Intellectual

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Passion, Self, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.30, BookRix

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• Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

  Tom Rachman

  Fighting, Swimming, Pages

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• However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.

  James Connolly

  Ocean, Independent, Army

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.

  Afua Cooper

  Spiritual, Pain, Book

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• My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Drama, Drug, Different

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• I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

  Pharrell Williams

  Boys, Virginia, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, College, Garden

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• It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!

  Steven Moffat

  Running, Warrior, Journey

  "‘Doctor Who’ Premiere: Poster Of The Doctor And New Companion". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Inner Peace, Energy, Growing

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• Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Desire, Trying, Atoms

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

  Prince Philip

  Country, Classic, Notorious

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• For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own world. That you and your work, your living, are not the only reason you're here. Your role is to shepherd your children through to adulthood. That's the point of life. Your own little sessions and needs and passions are just there to flavour you and help you do that job for your children.

  Shaun Micallef

  Jobs, Children, Passion

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• Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Heart, Leader, Pushing

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• We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Chaos, Absurd, Planets

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.

  John le Carre

  Believe, Two, America

  2003 In Time, 27 Jan.

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• 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 silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Air, Flames

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Australia, Opening Ceremony

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.

  Anthony Albanese

  Stars, Careers, Australia

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.

  Adrian Tan

  Strong, Average, Offending

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• 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, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Home, World, Tongue

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• [Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Taken, Science, Space

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