Quotes with points

  • You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
  • It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
  • 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.
  • The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
  • Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
  • One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
  • Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
  • The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
  • They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
  • TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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  • Buddha A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Knute Rockne Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
    Knute Rockne
    Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888 - 1931)
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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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  • Joyce Carey A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
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  • Edith Wharton After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bjarke Ingels All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Arthur Boyd Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Henry Miller Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Calamity Jane As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Lionel Trilling Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Albert Einstein Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment.
    The evolution of physics (1938)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Augustus William Hare Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Barbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • August Strindberg Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andy Rooney I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Angela Merkel I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Abigail Adams I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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