Top 485 Core Quotes

To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like ‘Once Upon a Time’ enhances that because the show puts a spin on characters and makes them very different and puts core values that are very different that aren’t in the original fairy tales a lot of people relate to.
Robbie Kay
You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the position that you are a spiritual being. In this way, the body and the mind are each other’s opposite unto death, which is why you have to choose which of them you are going to follow.
Howard Jacobson
I’ve always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit’s success. Innovation has been part of Intuit’s DNA for nearly 30 years.
Brad D. Smith
I’ve heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that’s actually delaying the development of literacy.
Randi Weingarten
Cyprus joined the E.U. in 2004 and immediately wanted to get into the euro area for the express purpose of completing, as quickly as possible, the union with the core of Europe. It was done because the public thought that would be beneficial for political reasons, not economic reasons.
Athanasios Orphanides
I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that’s where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there’s always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
Jason Dolley
Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices – which enter into total inflation – and movements in the prices of other goods and services – that is, core inflation.
Janet Yellen
It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
Campbell Brown
The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world’s economic, political, and environmental problems.
Winnie Byanyima
My exercise varies from yoga to Pilates. The yoga provides me with achieving my balance and mental relaxation, whereas the Pilates allow me to work my inner core through stretching and keeping my muscles toned.
Erin Heatherton
To build my core strength, I do push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, on-the-spot running with bands, and individual runs.
P. R. Sreejesh
At my core, the glass isn’t half-empty – it’s not even what I ordered in the first place.
Catherine Tate
At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.
Joshua Oppenheimer
A core group of the world’s leading economies need to come together and hammer out an understanding.
Charles Dallara
I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little – perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
Dan Levitan
I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I’ve just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I’ve read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.
Jenna Fischer
The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses’ cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force.
Kim Jong-un
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
Dallas Willard
‘Million Dollar Arm’ touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundation’s core values, such as children, teamwork and family.
Joe Torre
You have to have a strong idea for a hit movie, a strong core idea that resonates emotionally. It also has to technically achieve its goal – it’s got to be well-written, well-paced, and interestingly told.
Stacey Snider
In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.
Simon Mainwaring
I’m committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.
Bob Iger
Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it’s the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.
Marco Tempest
The core of me is country. It’s what I love. It’s what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I’m still singing it ‘countrily.’
Ashley Monroe
At its core, what’s amazing about YC is you don’t have to work to get in. You don’t have to know anyone, so there isn’t some type of old boys’ club.
Michael Seibel
I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core stre

I’m not a violent person, but I’ve got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
Understanding language is core to a lot of Google products such as Gmail.
Jeff Dean
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.
Mitch Daniels
I don’t really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.
Greta Gerwig
I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn’t mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I’m always trying to make a larger human statement.
Wynton Marsalis
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius
The liberals think government exists to fix what’s wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there’s nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won’t cure.
Rick Perry
Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.
Ryan Holmes
The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don’t really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don’t want to bore readers.
Scott Turow
Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.
Masayoshi Son
It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.
Jeff Sessions
I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That’s the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it’s expressed or not.
Lisa Cholodenko
The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
Yotam Ottolenghi
No one predicted Mercury would be a planetary core with the mantle stripped off. No one predicted volcanoes on the Jovian moons, or oceans on the inside of them. I can tell you, for every single planet, huge ‘we never guessed that’ things.
Alan Stern
As a listener, we’re looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us – who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.
Jason Moran
In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
Jimmy Wales
For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
Rahm Emanuel
Spin class is the best for your core!
Colton Haynes
Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.
Lisa Randall
A core part of Teach For America’s mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
Wendy Kopp
I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It’s a veil; it’s a disguise. It’s defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.
Tatiana Maslany