Quotes with pointed

  • Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
  • Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

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  • Jake Johanson A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Abraham Cowley As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Aldous Huxley But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Johnson In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Dylan Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
    Suicide remarks are torn
    From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
    Plays wasted words, proves to warn
    That he not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Emily Brontë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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