All Quotes

The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.
‐‐ Brian Greene

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.
‐‐ Virchand Gandhi

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.
‐‐ George Takei

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
‐‐ Natan Sharansky

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?
‐‐ Howard Baker

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or become defined contribution programs in which federal spending is capped, as Republicans suggest.
‐‐ Christina Romer

The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
‐‐ Gijs de Vries

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.
‐‐ Anand Gopal

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.
‐‐ David Ginola

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
‐‐ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.
‐‐ Kate Williams

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
‐‐ Claude Debussy

The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and sub-nuclear world. Physicists then had greater clout than other scientists because the memory of their role in the Second World War was fresh in people's minds.
‐‐ Martin Rees

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
‐‐ Vicente del Bosque

The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.
‐‐ Michael Ashcroft

The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
‐‐ Heraclitus

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
‐‐ Antonio Porchia

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
‐‐ Sophie Swetchine

The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.
‐‐ Howard Wilkinson

The chalkboards are no longer cutting it. We've got to adapt education at every level to this new paradigm to keep our kids competitive. Affordability of technology has to be at the forefront of everything we do.
‐‐ Scott Howell

The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

The challenge at this point is helping a brand understand they're not just commissioning a viral video but tapping into an existing fan base and an audience that's very loyal... It's two brands working together: the Rhett and Link brand and their brand.
‐‐ Charles Lincoln Neal

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.
‐‐ Ron Jaworski

The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.
‐‐ Simon Schama

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employees, wherever they work from, share a united identity and vision?
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
‐‐ Berenice Abbott

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
‐‐ Eric Braeden