Top 100 At The Point Quotes
#1. I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
Britney Spears
#2. A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.
Michael Silverblatt
#3. We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
Bill Gates
#4. When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.
William Hazlitt
#5. Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
#6. The conception of each star was at the point of no return; of a desperate soul struggling to master the winds!
C. JoyBell C.
#7. I'm at the point where I just ... don't. I know that doesn't make any fucking sense, but it's how I feel. I don't.
Kim Holden
#8. People fear death even more than they fear pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
Jim Morrison
#9. It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.
Emily Grayson
#10. The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there ; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.
Ferdinand Foch
#11. People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison
#12. "To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."
Leo Buscaglia
#13. Morality begins at the point of a gun.
Mao Zedong
#14. I miss kissing you. I dream about it, Aly, and I'm at the point where I might just go insane if I can't do it again.
Rachel Harris
#15. A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.
Henning Von Tresckow
#16. And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#17. Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a small cloud of telepathic butterflies, and one of these brushed the cheek of Dwayne Hoover, nine miles away.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#18. I think the Liberals are doing everything they can to do turn it around, but the reality is that we're at the point right now where only Stephen Harper can lose this election. Only some major mistake by Harper or someone close to him can derail the Conservative juggernaut.
Nik Nanos
#19. We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which is crystal clear and perilously present. Let us take the guns away from the people.
Patrick V. Murphy
#20. Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.
James Redfield
#21. As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.
Elena Ferrante
#22. History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
Julian Barnes
#23. The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#24. We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God's name is used so often in profanity in the entertainment world that sometimes it is embarrassing to watch television.
Billy Graham
#25. Life is a cycle of sadness and joy , Best decision is stop at the point of Happiness .
Arash Pakravesh
#26. Knowing that we'd meet Ruby at the point where she stopped believing, I knew I was also going to have to deal with what you do with your capacity for belief if you don't have an object for your belief.
K.M. Soehnlein
#27. When you succeed in life, You cannot be sure till you reach at the point you expect.
Auliq Ice
#28. All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.
Gene Wolfe
#29. The poor (horse) had sure got a reason to be mean, and I guess he's at the point where he figgers no human is his friend any more.
Will James
#30. I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.
Julie Klausner
#31. Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
James Baldwin
#32. I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.
Rachel Hunter
#33. More money has been lost because of four words than at the point of a gun. Those words are 'This time is different.
Carmen M. Reinhart
#34. Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : "I am He". That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours.
Swami Vivekananda
#35. A Bradford male might realize early on that he'd found the woman of his dreams, but until he was at the point that he was willing to risk a kidnapping charge, he wasn't ready for marriage.
R.L. Mathewson
#36. It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#37. In entrepreneurship, you decide to give up your day job at the point where either (A) the hobby/new business is at least making some form of ends meet, or (B) you feel that you need to dedicate yourself for a certain amount of time to it and give yourself the last hoorah.
Daymond John
#38. Of course Mr Bennet would be dead, right at the point in time when she most needed to upbraid him,
Sherry Mellor
#39. We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
Bill McKibben
#40. With a man, pleasure ends at the moment of his orgasm. With a woman, pleasure begins at the point of her orgasm.
Chloe Thurlow
#41. We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.
John Romero
#42. Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
Ben Horowitz
#43. If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote?
Tom Tancredo
#44. Many have the idea that organizing people is very difficult, but it isn't. It becomes difficult only at the point where you begin to see other things that are easier. But if you are willing to give the time and make the sacrifice, it's not that difficult to organize.
Cesar Chavez
#45. In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.
Shomei Tomatsu
#46. As a nation the people of this lovely island called Britain, are at the point where even one honest politician could give us a collective and conceptual nervous breakdown.
Steve Merrick
#47. The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
Jimmy Buffett
#48. I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
Brian Friel
#49. At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#50. I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.
John McEnroe
#51. It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.
Todd Rundgren
#52. God often presents us with the test of love at the point when we ourselves are struggling.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#54. There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.
Scott Cohen
#55. We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.
Ann Macbeth
#56. I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
Agatha Christie
#57. Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#58. Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those who are determined to do so. The place to stop the misuse of knowledge is not at the point of inquiry, but at the point of misuse.
Arthur R. Jensen
#59. At the point when adding people into the company feels like more work than the work that you can offload to the new employees, the defensive lineman has run around you and you probably need to start giving ground grudgingly.
Ben Horowitz
#60. The gospel should meet people at the point of their deepest confusion and at the height of their loftiest ideals. What matters most is that we bring Christ into every moment of human history and every point of human concern.
Christopher W. Brooks
#61. If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there ... because we are never there but always here, now!
Paul Twitchell
#62. The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point where one is being attacked than the enemy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#63. I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.
Mike Judge
#64. The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm
#65. One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.
Nicky Oppenheimer
#66. The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#67. I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.
Christina Hendricks
#68. We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.
Roy Spencer
#69. True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman
#70. At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.
John Perry
#72. Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.
Josh Waitzkin
#73. I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.
Pia Zadora
#74. To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#75. The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
Raymond Chandler
#76. You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.
Frank Gehry
#77. Temptation was the color white. It was black ink, quivering at the point of a pen's nib.
Marie Rutkoski
#78. The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green
#79. If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
Thomas Jefferson
#80. How oft," he murmured, "when men are at the point of death have they been merry!
Rachel Joyce
#81. Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.
Charles Colson
#83. I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.
Elon Musk
#84. An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
Victor Hugo
#85. The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
#86. The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James Baldwin
#87. We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party
Andrew Lansley
#88. Now I'm at the point where I can bring the cursor just about anywhere.
Matt Nagle
#89. Murder is not about lust and it's not about violence. It's about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At the point, it's being God.
Ted Bundy
#90. I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild.
Carmelo Anthony
#91. It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.
Ann Packer
#92. That's great. Tell me about it. I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography. The beginning of the end.
Don DeLillo
#94. While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#95. I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.
Gloria Estefan
#96. Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom?
Heather Blanton
#97. most companies book their revenue at the point inventory is shipped to distribution.
Chad Smith
#98. If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.
William E. Simon
#99. You can tell a lot about a country by observing how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry.
Michael Lewis
#100. Love begins with a metaphor, which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetice memory.
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Milan Kundera
