At A Point Quotes

#1. My dad was a Buddhist when I was young. So, at a point when I begging become Catholic he was saying "no" and imparting Buddhist precepts.

Sean Astin

#2. The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect or confined at a point somewhere along a gradual pathway toward perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.

Hermann Hesse

#3. I'm at a point in my life where I could make 20 more movies, but I want to make 20 more movies that matter to me.

Reese Witherspoon

#4. Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Bertolt Brecht

#5. If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Sivananda

#6. 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?

Anne Bancroft

#7. We're at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that's compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#8. If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'

Andrew Lansley

#9. It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#10. I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.

Hope Davis

#11. When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through.

Robert Moss

#12. I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Cheryl James

#13. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

Saul Leiter

#14. We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.

Mitch Lasky

#15. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

Sol Luckman

#16. Do not judge yourself and do not judge others at all. Do not be at a point of judgement, merely be in your discernment that your consciousness may transform and you will walk into your full power. From this place you may create anything.

Archangel Metatron

#17. We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.

Petra Kelly

#18. Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

Laura Prepon

#19. I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

Darren Aronofsky

#20. We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

Edgar Mitchell

#21. Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space.

Ronald Coase

#22. I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

Greg Bryk

#23. Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

Stephen Cambone

#24. My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#25. I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.

PJ Harvey

#26. I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.

Brad Willis

#27. I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Candice Bergen

#28. And we are beginning to hear the groaning from our tortured planet. We are at a point when we must realize that if we want to continue to call this planet our home, we need to change - not the planet, but ourselves.

Masaru Emoto

#29. At a point during the summer it occurred to me that I had no letters from John, not one. We had only rarely been far or long apart.

Joan Didion

#30. All I'll say is ... I'm at a point in life when nothing feels shocking to me. I need something to shock me! I'm almost ready to see a U.F.O.

CeeLo Green

#31. 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.

Margaret Mead

#32. When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

Ice-T

#33. We're at a point in time in our history of humanity where the systems we use for mass production have to be reevaluated, and it first struck me that online communities are a way to have local production with a universal reach.

Mary Mattingly

#34. We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

Danny Hillis

#35. We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

Kevin Costner

#36. The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

Raymond Sokolov

#37. I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it,

Kenny Chesney

#38. I'm at a point where I'm going where the journey leads me. I've set goals but I don't get really hung up if I don't achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?

Deborah Cox

#39. Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this.

Eric Mayes

#40. Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here.

Nathan Seiberg

#41. At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

James McGreevey

#42. There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

Laura Ingraham

#43. I think I've been fortunate over the years to be at a point in my career where I really get to choose the partnerships that I really want to take on and they're a perfect fit.

Tom Brady

#44. Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Lewis H. Lapham

#45. My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

Jack Wagner

#46. The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

Jane Fonda

#47. We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

Dee Hock

#48. It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.

John Scalzi

#49. I was at a point in my life where I didn't have any hope, but it wasn't the end for me. I buckled down, put in the effort and hard work and was able to get myself out of that hole. You always have to have hope.

Jason Peter

#50. I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

Luke Bryan

#51. I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.

Hayden Panettiere

#52. I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

Jacques Derrida

#53. As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#54. A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.

Steve Erickson

#55. A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

Nelson Mandela

#56. I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off,

Ashley Graham

#57. We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

Rush Limbaugh

#58. I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.

Charlie Huston

#59. I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

Gary Cherone

#60. I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I'm looking for something else to sink my teeth into that's interesting to me, that I can do that I can feel like I'm turning another corner.

Ryan Montgomery

#61. But now, in the final hours, even hope had vanished. Yet he could smile. At a point without hope he had found contentment. He knew he had tried and there was nothing to be sorry for. And this was complete victory, because it was a victory over himself.

Richard Matheson

#62. We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.

Barack Obama

#63. Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Dorothy Parker

#64. People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

Anne-Marie Duff

#65. When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

Matt McGorry

#66. You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.

Jeff Bezos

#67. Had the love been perennial, there won't have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of husbands by wives, who were lovers at a point of time.

Girdhar Joshi

#68. I'm at a point where I'm ready to settle down. Every girl I meet, though, something wrong happens, and I end up getting hurt.

Ryan Lochte

#69. I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

Nikki Haley

#70. I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

Jodie Foster

#71. We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Edward W. Said

#72. You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.

Frank Langella

#73. This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.

Martin Dempsey

#74. We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

Sri Aurobindo

#75. When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.

Trent Reznor

#76. It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

Tim Hetherington

#77. I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

Anne Tyler

#78. Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

Bruce Kovner

#79. Life is like water . If we stop at a point it'll start to stink so it must be a steam which will keep moving on and will never stink ..
Feel the difference between the water that never flows it stinks and the water that never stops its fresh

Arfa Zainab

#80. The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

Curt Schilling

#81. They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.

Joseph Campbell

#82. Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Eminem

#83. It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

Shawn Johnson

#84. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitable end up at a point of illogic, an article of faith? Even an indisputable fact must be chosen as the place to start reasoning, given weight by a mind that believed in its worth.

Rachel Hartman

#85. At a point, there is nothing you can do to make someone love you, nothing you can do to make your love better or lasting, but you want it, search for it, and make every effort to sustain it regardless.

M.E. Thomas

#86. Finally, though, I arrived at a point where I decided this was bullshit. I stopped feeling as if I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I belonged anywhere I wanted to be - whether that was a boardroom, business class, or on

Sophia Amoruso

#87. I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

Ice-T

#88. We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said ... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

Roger Mahony

#89. It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.

Madeleine Stowe

#90. We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

Margaret Mead

#91. Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Annie Lennox

#92. I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

Ellen Goodman

#93. I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or make it seem like it's just about me.

Tyler Beede

#94. If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

Josh McDowell

#95. People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.

Dale Peck

#96. From a place of protection to a sinister trap. I know at some point we'll be forced to reenter its depths, either to hunt or be hunted, but for right now I'm planning to stick

Suzanne Collins

#97. What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, It's all your fault!

Haruki Murakami

#98. I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

Manu Bennett

#99. There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Michael Stipe

#100. But at this point, with only minor victories for the rebels, a cease-fire could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse.

Suzanne Collins