Hingepoints Quotes

#1. There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

Neal A. Maxwell

#2. A money-lender
he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.

Joseph Addison

#3. My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. One thing we've learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

Steven D. Levitt

#5. You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can ... well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Joseph Kosinski

#6. I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .

Kate Saunders

#7. I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

Joan Rivers

#8. To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Sri Aurobindo

#9. With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

John B. Larson

#10. BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time.

Steven Sinofsky

#11. And here, out in the darkness, identical twins were stalking each other, one of them with murder on his mind.

Anthony Horowitz

#12. Make your life spectacular, I know I did.

Robin Williams