Quotes with 500-point

Quotes 341 till 360 of 451.

  • Woodrow Wilson The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Butler The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Calvin Harris The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Anita Dunn The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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  • Sebastian Faulks The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Bernard Devoto The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Buddy Wakefield The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
    Poetry
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The turning point was the Tea Act and the resulting Tea Party in Boston in December 1773.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Karl Kraus The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated - namely, the lavatory.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Plutarch The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Branford Marsalis The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Ali Smith The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • John Osborne The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Brendan Gleeson The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Stella Adler The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
    Stella Adler
    American actress and acting (1901 - 1992)
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  • Bow Wow The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Burton Richter Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Elmore Leonard There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Benjamin Watson There are certain things you don't say that's disrespectful. They detract from the point you're trying to make.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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