Top 1200 Center Of Gravity Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.

It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious.

The way you move — you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets… or gravity. You’re like a… satellite, or something.

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day.

God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

Everybody goes up and does something in the private sector that they feel that they can do, and obviously I'm a musician and feel that one of my experiments - because I think there are many that you can do and that you're helped with the ideas of what you could do - yes, would be to see how I would sing in zero gravity.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

If I could afford it, I'd buy 1,000 acres and put my house right dead-center.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

I first heard Pantera after getting out of a detention center as a kid.

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.

Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is essentially your spirit, the spirit being an abstract but real force. It is as real as gravity. It is as real as time. It is incomprehensible. It is mysterious but it is powerful and it is eternal.

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.

The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or not. I think my father believed this because ... when the wind blew on him, he'd get angry, because it was something he couldn't control.

I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing.

As an 18-year-old, I learned a valuable lesson when I attempted to cut costs and pumped leaded gas into my first car - a car that required unleaded gas only. It did not take long before I realized the gravity of my error.

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

There's no debate about the greenhouse effect, just like there's no debate about gravity. If someone throws a piano off the roof, I don't care what Sarah Palin tells you, get out of the way because it's coming down on your head.

Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.

Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

A snowflake is another beautifully ordered example of what simple, natural meteorological processes can produce. Stars form by gravity, collapsing into spherically ordered structures that can remain in this form only if they release tremendous heat energy into the environment.

I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

Trump sees himself as the center of the media universe, the sun to which all eyes turn.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.