Centre Quotes

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

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.

I think that I always loved being the centre of attention!

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.

I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

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

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

You are my centre when I spin away.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one. (about Ian St John)

It was not Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre.

Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called God.

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

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

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

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

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

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.

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.

There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there.

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.