Centre Quotes - Page 9

• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Home, Heart, Destiny

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• I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Lying, Eye, Cutting

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• The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

  Joseph Rykwert

  Cities, Impossible, Architecture

  "Property prices are "castrating the whole notion of city life"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. February 24, 2014.

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• That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Emotional, Mind, Looks

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• Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Drama, Self, Silence

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• We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre

  Steven Biko

  Men, Long, Add

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• It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth

  Denise Morrison

  Effort, Growth, Next Steps

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• Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

  James Joyce

  Evil, Hell, Intense

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.243, Courier Dover Publications

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• Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres - and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Afar, Orbit, Gazing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.

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• Sure I've got an awesome overdraft but as a perk I've got someone personally assigned to look after me. When you spend £45,000 on doing up your house you don't have to speak to someone in a call centre.

  Brian Robertson

  House, Looks, Speak

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• At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

  Philipp Meyer

  School, Years, Volunteer

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• If the players go Christmas shopping, it's not ideal preparation. It may sound silly, but having to fight off the crowds in a busy shopping centre or having people visit can be demanding.

  Steve Coppell

  Silly, Fighting, Player

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• And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change-the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black-the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In fact, the circles multiply. To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles.

  Yann Martel

  Moon, Night, Blue

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• The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

  Klaus Schwab

  Keys, Issues, India

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• At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Lakes

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

  Ali MacGraw

  Stars, Confused, Waiting

  "'Love Story' Actress Ali McGraw: I Should Have Sought Alimony". www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2012.

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• A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Turkeys, Inspire, Soul

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• On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

  Harold Wilson

  Littles, Hearing, Eras

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• If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Circumstances, Leading Me

  1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet's madness. Hamlet, act 2, sc.2, l.159-61.

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• Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Cities, Paris

  Bram Stoker (2015). “The Burial of the Rats”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.

  Peter Dicken

  Mosaics, World, Economy

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.509, SAGE

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• I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

  Rick Astley

  Uncles, Dad, Kids

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

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• All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Errors, People

  Konrad Lorenz (2005). “On Aggression”, p.99, Routledge

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• An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

  Alan Bennett

  Daily Mail, Should, Articles

  Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

  Northrop Frye

  Heart, Humans, Left

  Quoted by Paul Wilson in'Growing Up with Orwell', in The Idler, Jul - Aug 1989.

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