Centre Of Gravity Quotes

#1. Overthrow is a nicely judged word. It suggests a wrestler being flung to the mat. That only happens when you move outside your centre of gravity. Your enemy can't throw you if you have your feet firmly planted. Which

M.R. Carey

#2. Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

Scilla Elworthy

#3. It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#5. When the centre of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in "the beyond" - in nothingness - then one has taken away its centre of gravity altogether.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth

Denise Morrison

#7. The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Archimedes

#8. The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Archimedes

#9. Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. Sooner or later our souls find their centre of gravity in a hot, salt-tasting kiss and a trembling touch. Trembling is a good sign: it means you're open to a world that knows you're coming.

Louise Carey

#11. It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite
sides respectively.

Archimedes

#12. The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

Klaus Schwab

#13. There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

Demi Moore

#14. May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a bellows?

Lao-Tzu

#15. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory ... We are men only, a brief flare of the torch.

Madeline Miller

#16. Steffania shook her head in mock sorrow. "I've heard it said people never grow up. They merely learn how to behave in front of others." She leaned over and whispered loudly, "Ramsey has done neither.

Patricia A. Knight

#17. Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed, vampire stalker

Stephenie Meyer

#18. I'm trying to abandon the present, but I don't even have the skills to master the past.

Lindsey Leavitt

#19. It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

Carl Sagan

#20. But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.

Alexandre Dumas