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  • The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons ­nor should anybody else. But the point in the Middle East, as distinct from North Korea, is that this is center of the world's energy resources. Originally the British and secondarily the French had dominated it, but after the Second World War, it's been a U.S. preserve. That's been an axiom of U.S. foreign policy, that it must control Middle East energy resources.

    War   Thinking   Issues  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

    Change   Hope   Courage  
    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

    John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”
  • The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

    Stars   Home   Sleep  
    Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.167, Univ of California Press
  • I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

  • To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

  • Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

    Thinking   People   Looks  
    "Martin McDonagh, Our New Norman Mailer" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.
  • If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

    Rome   Long   Wish  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.

    Ocean   Night   Sky  
    Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc
  • Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

    Color   Glue   World  
  • I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will be. I do not believe that we are in the center of the world. It is possible that there are gods who do not relate to human. As an artist, I believe that it is possible to depict these forces.

    "Structures Are No Longer Valid". "Ein Gespräch; Joseph Beuys, Jannis Kounellis, Anselm Kiefer, Enzo Cucchi". Book edited by Jaqueline Burckhardt, 1986.
  • Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

  • The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

    Country   Lying   Florida  
  • I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

  • Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

    Food   Cooking   World  
    Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.588, Everyman's Library
  • The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

    Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial
  • For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

    "The Painter of Modern Life".
  • In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

    Believe   People   World  
    "Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life". Book by Martin Seligman, August 10, 2011.
  • I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

    W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1734, eBookIt.com
  • Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

    Men   Tree   Secret  
  • There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

    Hype   Deceit   World  
    "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.
  • Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

  • New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

    New York   World   Lions  
  • Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.

    Life   Flower   Hug  
  • Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

    Love Is   Men   Ties  
    "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
  • I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  • When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: [Victor] Valdes, [Carles] Puyol, [Andrés] Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center of the world, and that honesty meant saying what I thought and always being direct.

    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

  • In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

    Real   Italian   Needs  
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