Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Rafael Benitez

We have three or four months to get through. In January we need to reinforce the squad. We were thinking about a right-winger and centre half, everyone knows that, but when people say we left it until the last minute, that's not true,

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.

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Richard Flanagan

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Scilla Elworthy

Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

Olivia Newton-John

It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.

Vladimir Putin

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

Claude Julien

What we like about Radek is that he can be a solid No. 3 centre for us and if we run into injury problems, then he is the kind of guy who can move up to the No. 1 or No. 2 position with no problem,

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.

Mohsin Hamid

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Around the city, whether it's from the RCA Dome, to Circle Centre Mall, to Monument Circle, the planning has been in earnest for more than a year now.

Lars Frederiksen

The new ownership want to be right at the centre of the whole consolidation phase in food ingredients. And it's very important that we have the possibility of participating in this game.

Maria Valverde

In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.

Philippe Petit

I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.

Hideo Kojima

In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

David Ginola

International football took centre stage this week, and England fans must be delighted with the two victories their team gained.

Ian Mckellen

If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.

Close investigations, however, proved something more namely that within such a centre there was also localization with regard to joints.

The idea that you are at the centre of society, you're a foundational institution, there's been a move away from that, ... I think the church is struggling to regain that, which in my personal view, ain't gonna happen.

The initial report from the rescue team to the command centre indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication.

The initial report from the rescue teams from the command centre indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication.

David Alpay

A script is so word-heavy, after trying to communicate so much verbally, I think you need a different outlet to give the verbal centre of your brain a chance to cool off.

Craig Cameron

As a centre half-forward and a key-position player, he deserves that sort of money.

Helen Zille

Press reports that there has been a staff purge at the Civic Centre are incorrect.

Once you're out of the city centre it's important to do something to turn a few heads and give yourself some presence, rather than just going through the motions.

O. J. Simpson

There is still work going on the other nine samples, but the preliminary results from the collaborating centre in London suggest that those are not H5N1.

There's a new climbing centre opening up in the UK every month. There's a new class of climber emerging who is using climbing walls as an alternative to the gym, and will graduate to climbing outdoors.

Matt Giteau

A lot of people say it is cliche, that I don't mind where I play. But it's true. I do enjoy playing inside centre and I like the responsibility of flyhalf.

Jacques Rogge

This is really in the city itself. It is in the centre of the city.