| "I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)" »Jim Lehrer |
| "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham |
| "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." »Harriet |
| "If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand." »J. F. Boyse |
| "The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." »Maya Angelou |
| "The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them." »Rudolf Virchow |
| "There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be." »Lao Tzu |
| "Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center." »Stephen Spender |
| "A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." »Richard Hofstadter |
| "The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying." »Edward Hoagland |
| "We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »Orrin Hatch |
| "With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman |
| "George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door." »Blow |
| "Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish." »E. M. Cioran |
| "Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." »William Butler Yeats |
| "This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »John McCain |
| "When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." »Bernard Bailey |
| "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush |
| "As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »Tom Daschle |
| "The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation." »George McGovern |
| "Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush |
| "Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." »Dr. Robert Schuller |
| "It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "Of my friends, I am the only one I have left." »Terence |
| "To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men." »Albert Einstein |
| "Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love." »Andrew Schneider |
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