Point Finger At Quotes

#1. There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.

Bruce Riedel

#2. Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Charles Mackay

#3. Beauty is not static. You cannot point your finger at something and say there's beauty. Like all natural things beauty comes and goes. You have to capture it in your heart. See if you can retain it long enough to give you happiness.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#4. Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back and espouse their rhetorically liberal points of view while they continue to be the 1 percent and point the finger at the other guy.

Harry Lennix

#5. Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Philip Greenspun

#6. A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#7. They were going to drag the boy she loved into the clearing, point a gun at the kindest, bravest person she'd ever met, and end his life with the twitch of a finger.

Kass Morgan

#8. When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.

Matt Lauer

#9. This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.

Amish Tripathi

#10. Never forget that when you point the finger at someone, three of your own fingers are pointing back at you...

Peter Van Der Linden

#11. It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.

Stephen Richards

#12. There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn - there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

Alyson Noel

#13. You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'

Ben Carson

#14. When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

Mark Knopfler

#15. There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

Gary Oldman

#16. As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother

John Sentamu

#17. Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon's location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger.

Hui-Neng

#18. Holding something doesn't make it yours. You realize at some point you're just keeping it back for yourself, because it's pulling away with equal force. You've got to cut the string from your finger and leave that wispy thread, like a baby spider on the breeze.

Craig Silvey

#19. If you are going to point a finger, you point it at me.

David Wells

#20. I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh ... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

Scott Ian

#21. I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

David Wells

#22. When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

B. J. Palmer

#23. From one small spark a bushfire grows.
Sellers of misery are our foes.
Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame.
Point your finger at those to blame.

Paul Anthony

#24. Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet.

Anthony Liccione

#25. When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.

Bruce Lee

#26. If you point out the moon to a cat, she probably won't look at the sky; she'll come up and sniff your finger.

Steve Hagen

#27. Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Ken Auletta

#28. As he was shaking off, it came to Jake Chambers that the Pere would never do this again, or grin at him and point his finger; or cross himself before eating. They had killed him. Taken his life. Stopped his breath and pulse. Save for dreams, the Pere was now gone from the story. Jake began to cry.

Stephen King

#29. Leah" Olivia says quietly, "if you point at me again I'm going to break that manicured finger right off your hand. Now turn around and smile, your daughter is waking up.

Tarryn Fisher

#30. Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.

Heidi Klum

#31. It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.

Albert Belle

#32. I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

Molly Ivins

#33. The important thing is not to point a finger at flaws but to attempt to correct them!

Bebe Moore Campbell

#34. One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Iyanla Vanzant

#35. When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.

Christopher Pike

#36. My neighbor raised a shaking index finger to point at the saguaro. "That moving cactus ... and the big bug ... and you, you spooky bastard. What are you?
I stuffed my hands in my pockets and grinned winningly at him. "Why, I'm the Antichrist, of course.

Kevin Hearne

#37. When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon,the stupid ones look at your finger.

Mao Tse-tung

#38. Clean your Finger, before you point at my Spots.

Benjamin Franklin

#39. When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic.

Dalai Lama

#40. She wagged a finger at him. "You're mispronouncing that word."
"Your pardon?" He groped, trying to remember what he'd said. "Suffragette? How does one pronounce it, then?"
"Suffragette," she said, "is pronounced with an exclamation point at the end. Like this: 'Huzzah! Suffragettes!

Courtney Milan

#41. My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

Rajneesh

#42. To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon ...

D.T. Suzuki

#43. As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

Jack Kerouac

#44. I point a finger at her. "Thanks, babe."
"I am not your babe."
"Whatev.

Victoria Scott

#45. All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

Michael Eric Dyson

#46. All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

Shia Labeouf

#47. Don't point your accusatory finger at me, unless you want me to wrap my hand around it, grip it tight, and jerk it off. That's how a real politician defers blame.

Jarod Kintz

#48. I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

Gillian Anderson