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its evident wish to be for ever a sound and only a sound in the thickest centre of untravelled woods. — C.S. Lewis

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis. — Terry Pratchett

If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you. — Ian McKellen

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth. — Leonardo Da Vinci

So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one's being. — Susan Howatch

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family. — Les Dawson

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Parents don't care about anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts. — Paula Hawkins

You were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you. — Rainbow Rowell

The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible. — Jorge Luis Borges

Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself ... — Teresa Of Avila

What happened if you melted a person down layer by layer? What if there was nothing between the layers, and nothing at the centre, only quiet? — Madeleine Thien

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient. — Rohinton Mistry

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

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her. — Ian Dury

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre. — William Shakespeare

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it. — William Shakespeare

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

Just reaching the centre of our own galaxy would take far longer than we have existed as beings. — Bill Bryson

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. — Thomas Carlyle

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics. — Oswald Mosley

When I realized I was hovering at the centre of a giant glowing purple vulture, my first thought was: Carter will never stop teasing me about this. — Rick Riordan

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political. — Brigitte Bardot

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by. — Eleanor Catton

Life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre — Susanna Tamaro

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal. — Margaret Rutherford

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience. — Salman Rushdie

I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points. — Gareth Gates

There are worse things than minotaurs at the centre. — Cherie Priest

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, had given indications that the Centre had offered him — Anonymous

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can't give in to extortion. — Alexander Lebedev

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

You need peace to ground you and courage to act from the centre of yourself. — Jay Woodman

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school. — Greg Mortenson

The players must be at the centre of their industry. — Rob Andrew

From where I'm sitting,
I AM the centre of the Universe! — Sebastyne Young

I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town. — Daniel Barenboim

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung. — John Milton

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

Deep thoughts about the universe mean nothing if you keep putting yourself in the centre of it. — Vito Michienzi

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. — Michelle Dockery

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre. — George Osborne

I don't really want to be the centre of attention. — Brian O'Driscoll

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. — Len Cariou

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

A man both handsome and repulsive in equal measure-as if his good looks were plastered over a rotten centre, a hero's face with a henchman's heart. — Tom Rob Smith

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India. — Klaus Schwab

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. — Derek Walcott

If Bengali cuisine were Wimbledon, the hilsa would always play on Centre Court. — Samanth Subramanian

It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth — Denise Morrison

Soulmate is one who understands you and one who accepts you as you are, one who loves you, and one who is a kind of support centre for you. — Girdhar Joshi

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Change is a must, change is unavoidable, change is the centre of every move we make. — Euginia Herlihy

The subversive idea at the centre of Ericsson's work is that excellence is not reserved for the lucky few but can be achieved by almost all of us. — Matthew Syed

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We would root out terrorism if the BSP comes to the centre — Mayawati

Nobody knew I was coming,' she replied, shocked.

The policeman shook his head and turn to the empty city centre square. 'Everybody knows. — Luke Gracias

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre. — Hartley Coleridge

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict. — Timothy Olyphant

Don't just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others. — Richmond Akhigbe

Sanity is found at the centre of convulsion, where madness is scorched
from the bisected soul. — Sarah Kane

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience. — Bill Bryson

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

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

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad. — Monique Roffey

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. — Stephen Graham

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion. — John Hanning Speke

We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre — Steven Biko

No, it's the way he looks at you, like you're the centre of his universe. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Life is so infinitely hard. It involves a thousand tasks all at once. And I am a thousand different people, all fleeing away from the centre. — Matt Haig

How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant? — Vivian Balakrishnan

We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye

You were the centre of my universe,' I say. 'Everything else spun around you. — Rainbow Rowell

And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe. — Jarvis Cocker

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives. — Pope Francis

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

The mind is the sacred centre of all attraction. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. — Swami Vivekananda

Piggy once more was the centre of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal. — William Golding

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity. — Johann Gottfried Herder

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. — Yann Martel

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre. — Brian Eno

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world. — Karen Armstrong

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk

If people were less the centre of their own universe much trouble and pain would be saved. — S.M. C.

He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far. — Thomas Leuluai

But the people I found, the people I was attracted to were not unlike myself. They were trying to find order in their world, looking for the centre.. — V.S. Naipaul

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre. — Marina Abramovic

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

But somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre. — Laurie R. King

I am that quiet place, the centre of the maelstrom...The dangerous abyss, where few dare to tread... — Virginia Alison

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points. — James Joyce

A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression. — Auliq Ice

I've worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna. — Fleur East

John Stott concludes, "It seems to have been Paul's deliberate policy to move purposefully from one strategic city-centre to the next."5 — Timothy J. Keller