Central Quotes

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. (Don DeLillo)
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know. View quote
Bob Woodward
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. View quote
Walter Lippmann
If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. View quote
Richard Eberhart
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
Envy is the central fact of American life. View quote
Gore Vidal
I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life. View quote
Timothy Leary
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet. View quote
Ann Druyan
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals the technique of the marketplace. View quote
Milton Friedman
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. View quote
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection. View quote
Walt Whitman
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Then again, in the human body the central point is naturally the navel. For if a man be placed flat on his back, with his hands and feet extended, and a pair of compasses centered at his navel, the fingers and toes of his two hands and feet will touch the circumference of a circle described therefrom. View quote
Vitruvius
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. View quote
Michael E. Porter
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. View quote
Penelope Lively
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk. View quote
Ulrich Beck
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. (Arthur Henderson)
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us. View quote
Robert Mueller
If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. View quote
Danny Glover
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe. View quote
Laurence Housman