Point Quotes - page 4

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music. (George Strait)
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center. View quote
David Zindell
My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. View quote
James Thurber
If one doesn't learn from one's unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, "what's the point of all that suffering? View quote
Lin Carter
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. View quote
Graham Greene
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. View quote
Norman Cousins
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. View quote
Robert Frost
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. View quote
Christopher Reeve
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to life. View quote
Cesare Pavese
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change...The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful. View quote
James Lovelock
The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. View quote
Kingsley Amis
The point is that you can't be too greedy. (Donald Trump)
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. View quote
Margot Fonteyn
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. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Human beings are incontestably capital from an abstract and mathematical point of view. View quote
Theodore Schultz
Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses. View quote
Jane Jacobs