Point Quotes
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The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
Lactantius
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Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.
Napoleon Hill
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I feel like I was more accepted by the white community than the black [one]. A lot of the time, the black kids would be like, ‘Oh, ’cause you lighter, you’re not as “gang” as us. That’s really the attitude they have. It made me misbehave more because I felt like I had to prove a point.
AJ Tracey
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The high point of your life was when you knocked me down...
Nancy Farmer
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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
Corrie Ten Boom
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An individual can have a point of view. He is entitled to that.
Kapil Sibal
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It is not in the mind of anybody at this point in time to use military action.
Javier Solana
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When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.
Flannery O'Connor
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We've all got new priorities now, and we all know what we want. We made a point of becoming friends again before we signed the reunion deal - so it's different now. And our music is sounding better than ever.
Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett All Saints
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I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.
Carl Andre
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There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
Oprah Winfrey
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In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.
Albert Einstein
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I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
Courteney Cox
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I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.
Vaclav Havel
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The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.
Dean Spade
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Marianne Williamson
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It's been a long and challenging road to get us to this point.
Dennis Hastert
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Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.
Emily Bronte
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This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success.
Wilhelm Keitel
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Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?
Rachel Caine
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My break in Bollywood is definitely the high point of my life.
Shreya Ghoshal
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Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.
Albert Einstein
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I guess I am trying to get the point across that all of us are in need of salvation; that we are dead in our spirits and minds and need the grace that has been offered-no matter how good we think we are.
David Eugene Edwards