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Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep. — Bill Bryson

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection. — Mahatma Gandhi

Colorado's right next to Utah - you know, Mormon Central. — Trey Parker

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place. — Virginia Postrel

The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee

Not to mention central air-conditioning, an inn-wide stereo system, plasma TVs and iPod docking stations, and L'Occitane toiletries. — Elin Hilderbrand

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound. — David Letterman

As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics. — Jose Antonio Vargas

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers. — Ken Blanchard

There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it. — Jeff Lemire

The central awareness is a profound sense of oneness with all,
a sense of belonging to the universe as a whole — Alexis Karpouzos

It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush! — Kathy Griffin

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing. — Mackenzie Davis

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. — Chellie Pingree

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim. — Napoleon Hill

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan. — Pope Francis

And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival. — Kirkpatrick Sale

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda. — John McCain

Calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself. — Os Guinness

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth. — Charles Edward Montague

The inner struggle against one's own weaknesses is the central drama of life. — David Brooks

The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers. — Ralph Nader

I think what it means is that central to living A life that is good is a life that's forgiving. — David Rakoff

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. — Antony Beevor

You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch. — Michael Heseltine

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge. — Jacob Bronowski

Despite the well-deserved criticism, controlling public opinion became a central element in all future war planning. — Oliver Stone

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude. — Robert Hughes

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress. — Narendra Modi

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing
by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself. — Dallas Willard

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species. — Oliver Sacks

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others. — Oswald Chambers

Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup. — Thomas Muller

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments. — Girdhar Joshi

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. — Milton Friedman

Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. — Mark Kurlansky

He said his name was Kobi Chen-Tulsi. He said, "Tell Threnody Noon that the Prells are going to attack Grand Central." - The Crystal Horizon — Philip Reeve

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself. — Scott Bradfield

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central. — Madeleine Albright

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church
not just say that we do, but actually do it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life. — Pat Conroy

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence. — John H. Walton

I'm so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raises a lot of questions like, 'Why is he so big?' — PewDiePie

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity. — Heinz Von Foerster

Women were considered the snare of the Devil, while at the same time the cult of the Virgin made one woman the central object of love and adoration. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. — A.E. Samaan

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. — Don DeLillo

I find it hard to look at her. I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl
is a central truth. — David Levithan

I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet. — Joe Thomas

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough. — Plato

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations. — Willem Dafoe

As people move further away from a meat-based diet, I think the focus will shift to using grains as the central focus of our food supply. — Daniel Humm

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment. — Janet Yellen

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.' — Darren Star

At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived. — Ron Smothermon

Julie went to her hotel room window to check that the Campo, the central square of Siena, Italy, was still out there. — Candida Martinelli

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status. — Mahatma Gandhi

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life. — Mitt Romney

Manhandeling a lady was asking for trouble pretty much anywhere, but square in the middle of cowboy-central, it was close to suicidal. — Linda Lael Miller

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential. — Raymond Geuss

It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions. — Stephen King

The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. — G.K. Chesterton

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology. — Martin Seligman

I believe Salman Khurshid could not have embezzled Rs 71 lakh ... It is a very small amount for a central minister. — Beni Prasad Verma

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice. — Richard A. Falk

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. — Ron Paul

Every kid wants approval, but my desire to be well liked was central to my personality. — Mindy Kaling

I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city. — Brooke Astor

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth
the very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. — Stanley Hauerwas

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality. — Martin Carter

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. — Milton Friedman

That's what's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your boobs even if you wanted to. — Ilana Glazer

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. — Ingrid Newkirk

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — Samuel Smiles

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer. — John Prescott

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on. — Eknath Easwaran

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied. — Lawrence Calcagno

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx. — Jose Serrano

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego. — Rajneesh

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe. — John Dos Passos

Despite good intentions, the result is troubling: Feeding the Beast becomes the central focus. — Ed Catmull

They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining. — Robert Byron

The heart chakra is the central chakra. — Frederick Lenz

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. — George Lois

Education was central to reporting. — David Halberstam

Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. — Raymond Chandler

Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent. — Melissa Jensen

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels. — Carrie Vaughn

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation. — Martin Parr

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. — Andy Hargreaves

Let the park live in you until it sings you a song. — Zack Love

I believe that whether one believes in God or not is - it's very central to who I am. — Susan Jacoby

Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy. — Simon Cottee