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Quotes About Center

The captain was not the tip of a pyramid, as most people thought; in fact it was just the reverse: he was the spindle on which everything else balanced.
~ Dudley Pope
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
~ Rumi
Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.
~ Leonardo Boff
The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
~ William Butler Yeats
The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center.
~ Peter Julian Eymard
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.
~ Kenneth Anger
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
~ Luigi Pirandello
The heart is the place where our life gets its direction.
~ Jim George
Washington was then president of the United States, and Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the young nation and the center of its federal government.
~ Jim Murphy
Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.
~ Jim Ramstad
If life was really a journey, then children had to be the center of the wheel that moved it.
~ Ann Howard Creel
If you think about it, the youngest part of the tree is in the very middle. It is the little dot that will widen into a ring, next year. The youngest part of any tree is the heart.
~ Anne Enright
Chelyabinsk was at the center of the war effort.
~ Anne Garrels
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.
~ Anne Lamott
I've seen a lot of different training schools and dojos, and the sheer level of professionalism at the Performance Center and the state-of-the-art facility just knocked me for a six. It really blew me away.
~ Finn Balor
There are many Universal laws some of which need to be a centre of our attention if we wish living the life of a prosperous creator.
~ Koena Mitra
I prefer being the protagonist.
~ Satyadev Kancharana
I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.
~ Michael Mullen
On the centre of the lake, cooled by the piercing current of the Rhône, lay the true centre of the Western World. Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw, And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw
~ Farid ud-Din Attar
And I, I myself, am the centre that exists only because the geometry of the abyss demands it; I am the nothing around which all this spins, I exist so that it can spin, I am a centre that exists only because every circle has one. I, I myself, am the well in which the walls have fallen away to leave only viscous slime. I am the centre of everything surrounded by the great nothing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am the nothingness around which this movement spins, the only reason it spins, not that the center exists except in the fact that all circles have a center. I, really I, am the well without walls, but with the sliminess of its walls, the center of everything with the nothingness around it.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Son eras sobre eras, y tiempos tras tiempos, y sólo hay que andar sobre la circunferencia de un círculo que alberga la verdad en el punto del centro.
~ Fernando Pessoa