Quotes with point

  • There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from No, don't say that to Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens.
  • If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
  • And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.
  • Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
  • It's all over, he said to Cooke. You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.
  • Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
  • In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego.
  • 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.
  • But if the arrow is straight, And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
  • With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have
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  • August Strindberg A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Napoleon Hill Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Robert Collier All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • W. H. Auden All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Al Jourgensen Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Louis Aragon O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Max Weber Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Brian Moore There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
    Brian Moore
    British writer and screenwiter (1921 - 1999)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bud Grant 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bob Parsons A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in cyberspace. They're becoming increasingly important. I believe we'll get to the point where when you're born, you'll be issued a domain name.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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