Centre

Famous quotes containing the word centre:

    “The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, once more, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.”
    —Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)