Point Quotes - page 2

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. (Antonio Porchia)
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction. View quote
James Branch Cabell
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. View quote
James Thurber
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. View quote
John Dewey
The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. View quote
William O. Douglas
There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? View quote
Xi Jinping
People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point. View quote
George Carlin
What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. (Pierre Bourdieu)
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. View quote
Henry James
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to. View quote
Susie Bright
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. View quote
W. H. Auden
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. View quote
Margaret Mead
I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it? View quote
Anne Bancroft
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. View quote
Lillian Hellman
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. View quote
Frances Farmer
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson