Uncentered Quotes

#1. Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don't know who we are anymore, and marketers fill the void by telling us who we ought to be.

Jeff Brown

#2. I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.

William Klein

#3. The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.

Suzanne Massie

#5. Today 8 percent of the men who live within the former territory of the Mongol Empire share a Y chromosome that dates to around the time of Genghis, most likely because they descended from him and

Steven Pinker

#6. The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.

William Shakespeare

#7. I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.

Michelle Shocked

#8. Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for the first time and no one was checking on me. I wasn't anorexic but lost three stone. I weighed around seven. It lasted six months until I ran out of willpower.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#10. If I had one regret in life ... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

Rick Pitino

#11. Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. Yes,' said Harry quickly. 'Listen, how much would it be to get to London?' 'Eleven Sickles,' said Stan, 'but for firteen you get 'ot chocolate, and for fifteen you get an 'ot-water bottle an' a toofbrush in the colour of your choice.' Harry

J.K. Rowling

#13. I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

Henry Rollins

#14. The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

Mark Steyn

#15. It's always good to get the bully back one day.

Jonny Gomes

#16. I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon