Top 100 Point Of Quotes
#1. A child's stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.
John S. Savage
#2. There's a reason why people shouldn't talk at four in the morning. Exhaustion eliminates the ability to lie. It demolishes the ability to tiptoe around the truth. Emotions are too exposed and real. Heightened to the point of explosion.
Katie McGarry
#3. If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
Steve Maraboli
#4. If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!
Gabriel Faure
#5. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee
#6. The point of being created in the image of God is that human beings are destined to display God.That's what images do.And the point of being redeemed by Jesus, and renewed after the image of our Creator, is to recover this destiny.
Sam Crabtree
#7. Since the day I met you, I have always tried to judge my actions from your point of view.
Ravindra Shukla
#8. it was a point of good manners not to sit with a clique of the same friends all the time, and it meant that conversation at dinner had to be open and general rather than close and gossipy
Philip Pullman
#9. One cannot reach the real point of factual knowledge without being helped by the right person who is already established in that knowledge. There
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#10. The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.
Philip Kitcher
#11. Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.
Peter York
#13. I think that's the point of view of an outsider, a tourist who puts picturesqueness above everything else.
Paul Bowles
#14. The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.
Nancy Pearcey
#15. The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G.K. Chesterton
#16. I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.
George Stephen
#17. <"To bewitch" is to me always slightly artificial as it is always put on
whereas witchery is a form of naturalness that some people can't help, and the world judges that they don't create it ... > November 15 1967 memo to Mrs. Loew Gross re "THE ROMANTIC POINT OF VIEW
Diana Vreeland
#18. If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.
Anna D. Shapiro
#19. It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.
Henry Kimsey-House
#20. The very point of Labor's Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible!
Yitzhak Navon
#21. The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation.
Wilbur Smith
#22. From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of Christian superiority, except in technological terms. White
James Baldwin
#23. The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let me in, damn you, let me in!' The point is to walk away from the world and concentrate on creating a new woman.
Vivian Gornick
#24. I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.
Gore Vidal
#25. The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.
Harrison Ford
#26. I never put real people into my fiction
I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot.
Barbara Kingsolver
#27. I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.
Scott Glenn
#28. The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.
Nicholson Baker
#29. Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end ... This journey has a goal, but it does not stop at any goal, for it has come to realise that today's goal is only the starting point of tomorrow's journey.
Sri Chinmoy
#30. In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic - until the day I learned that animals have no souls.
Susan Kay
#31. The stronger a brand's point of view, the greater its voltage.
Ben Richards
#32. Your funny gets developed pretty early on. Comedy requires that you understand as much as possible about the viewpoints of all people and everything that's going on around you. It genuinely requires a true point of view, a real sense of your own view of things in the world.
Elizabeth Banks
#33. The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding ...
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
#34. It seems symbolic of this all-pervading unpredictability that those engaged in the perfection of the means of destruction have finally brought about a level of technical development where their aim, namely warfare, is on the point of disappearing altogether.
Hanna Arendt
#35. I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
W.G. Sebald
#36. Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
Austin O'Malley
#37. Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.
Adrian Tan
#38. The instant she made a point of telling me I was just as good as them, I saw that the whole question was open to debate and she was cheering me on because I was on the losing team
Sarah Bird
#39. Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#40. There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, "Who's in control?" we can answer without equivocation, "God is!
Billy Graham
#41. Lord Marshmoreton: I wish I could get you see my point of view.
George Bevan: I do see your point of view. But dimly. You see, my own takes up such a lot of the foreground
P.G. Wodehouse
#42. One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#43. When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.
Ben Horowitz
#44. If there is only nothingness after death, what's the point of this world?
Fuminori Nakamura
#45. Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.
Derek Bailey
#46. It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.
Wendy Carlos
#48. 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
#49. The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.
Bernie Ecclestone
#50. From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
Vidal Sassoon
#52. 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
#53. "To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."
Leo Buscaglia
#54. And you know, that's another reason I named her Coco. Because to me, chocolate is about indulging in things that give you pleasure. And what's the point of life if you can't find joy?
Kate Klise
#55. The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.
Eric Roberts
#56. ... Any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity...
Dean Koontz
#57. I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.
Maxine Kumin
#58. What's the point of having a good story if no one gets to hear it?
Claire Fayers
#59. Morality begins at the point of a gun.
Mao Zedong
#60. I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.
E. O. Wilson
#61. I have no large desire to sacrifice much of my personal habits, intellectual pleasures, and personal standards in order to become a billionaire like Warren Buffett, and I certainly do not see point of becoming one if I were to adopt Spartan (even miserly) habits and live in my starter house.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#62. While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before ... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.
Elizabeth George
#63. It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
Carmen Kass
#64. If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?
Rosamund Hodge
#65. I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?
Hilary Mantel
#66. So much of comedy is feeling comfortable with the point of view coming at you. So I understand it. There's people who I find hilarious now, but the first couple of times I saw 'em, I was like "What is this? I don't get it at all."
Scott Aukerman
#67. Point of view matters: I see that now, blind, talking to myself, trapped in a coffin falling past the edge of the solar system. I
Peter Watts
#68. The point of overcoming great challenges isn't to make a million dollars or change the world. The point is to gain strength and wisdom within.
Kevin Cole
#70. Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
Henry David Thoreau
#71. An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
Bipasha Basu
#72. In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
Boris Johnson
#73. From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
George Cukor
#74. The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.
Ram Dass
#75. What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
Imre Kertesz
#76. How many centuries must have elapsed before men reached the point of seeing any other fire than that in the sky?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#77. The flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout.
Anonymous
#78. And rose from her stool to make a big, bullying point of walking to the scales and weighing them herself. Anna felt scolded and two feet tall. She carried the agitation all the way home and didn't speak another word of German for the rest of the day.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#79. Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.
Sophie Kinsella
#80. Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.
Dale Carnegie
#81. Charitable Impulse XXV. Another Scandal and Another "Explanation" XXVI. Miss Cornelia Gets a New Point of View XXVII. A Sacred Concert XXVIII. A Fast Day XXIX. A Weird Tale
L.M. Montgomery
#82. Don't judge us too harshly - or not, at least, till you have taken the trouble to learn our point of view. You consider the individual - we think only of the family.
Edith Wharton
#83. What's the point of regret? It makes you feel awful, and you can't get the time back. The important thing is to realize your mistakes and know better.
Anonymous
#84. What's the point of a good job if you're dead?
Andrew Garve
#85. A show can be artistically successful; a show can be financially successful; a show can be successful by the transformative experience the audience is having; a show can be successful from the point of view of what is experienced by the cast and the company on a daily basis.
David Binder
#86. No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable
Terry Pratchett
#87. Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#88. ..They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.
Deb Caletti
#89. The 1960s:
A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.
Richard Brautigan
#90. When we link our eating and our prayer and begin to see food as part of a much bigger picture, rather than the focal point of our entire lives, we reshape the way we think, the way we act, and the way we interact.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#91. Bellamy didn't know why the ancient humans even bothered doing drugs. What was the point of shooting junk into your veins when walking through the forest had the same effect?
Kass Morgan
#92. Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved?
Matt Haig
#93. You have to say - and I do - that anything that blocks that cheapest possible point-of-care delivery of health is wrong.
John Sulston
#94. Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.
Ludwig Von Mises
#95. Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. What was the point of boo-hooing, as she saw it, when "no man is a prince, except in the imagination"? It was the same thing Marcy had said: "No one is as good as you think they are.
Paula Marantz Cohen
#96. When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.
Zelig Pliskin
#97. It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.
Nick Kroll
#98. You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#99. I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.
Sydney Pollack
