Points Quotes

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. (George Bernard Shaw)
Genius points the way, talent takes it. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever. View quote
Jim Morrison
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. View quote
Knute Rockne
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. View quote
Henry Miller
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. View quote
E. M. Forster
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. View quote
Livy
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. View quote
John Locke
I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective. View quote
Richard Donner
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. (George Eliot)
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. View quote
Robert Charles Winthrop
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones. View quote
Françoise Sagan
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. View quote
Anne Rice
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. View quote
Kris Kristofferson
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved. View quote
George Washington
Rationality is not one of humanity's strong points. (John Scalzi)
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. View quote
Napoleon Hill
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. View quote
William Wordsworth
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. View quote
Vitruvius