Core Quotes

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Just be yourself and stay true to your core values.

I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.

I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.

I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

Whatever your gender, you can be a Star Wars fan. Of course I knew it from life before, but the core of enthusiastic female fans is a testimony to the non-gendered nature of the audience.

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

I remember being absolutely rocked to my core by how profoundly I could love another human being.

The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.

It's not that I'm anti-religion. I'm anti any religion that doesn't practice the core, which is love.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

To me the central premise is about friendships within people of different generations when you take out the idea how age creates a barrier - to me, that's what the show is about at it's core.

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Anyone who tells you that the core issue is the needs of those living here illegally has simply spent too much time in Washington.

There is only one core issue in the immigration debate, and that issue is the well being of the American people.

I'd been conflict-phobic my entire life because I didn't want to lose my inner core of peace.

A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.

Common decency is a core part of who people are.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.