Cent Quotes

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home;

a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing.

My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by.

Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

Life is very short. If people aren't decent, kind, accountable, responsible, or responsive, man up and get rid of them.

It is in the center of a stable self-love that you will find the confidence and safety you want.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Never ask of money spentWhere the spender thinks it went.

Nobody was ever meantTo remember or inventWhat he did with every cent.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Learn to concentrate single-mindedly on the most important thing that you can be doing at any one time.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.

If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time.

Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they have lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society.

That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out.

He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.

Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition.

(God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family.

There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other.

It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.