Famous quotes containing the words top, dead and/or centre:
“The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician whos been dead ten or fifteen years.”
—Harry S. Truman (18841972)
“Belief and love,a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)