Point To Point Quotes

#1. I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point
to. - Author: Daniel Handler

#2. And who threw it, then?" continued Rosine, speaking quite freely the very words I should so much have wished to say, but had no address or courage to bring it out: how short some people make the road to a point which, for others, seems unattainable! "That - Author: Charlotte Bronte

#3. I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to. - Author: Kingsley Amis

#4. I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point. - Author: Vanessa Morgan

#5. To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long. - Author: Edward Young

#6. If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned. - Author: Oprah Winfrey

#7. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. - Author: Camille Paglia

#8. I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health. - Author: Alan Ball

#9. I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point. - Author: Solange Knowles

#10. There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out. - Author: Joanna Scott

#11. The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#12. What's the point? To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man. - Author: Anton Chekhov

#13. Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom. - Author: Anthony Liccione

#14. Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both. - Author: Allan Dare Pearce

#15. I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines. - Author: Chris Roberson

#16. Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would probably have waited more patiently. - Author: W.G. Sebald

#17. To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point. - Author: Francois Hollande

#18. The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. - Author: David Foster Wallace

#19. I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore. - Author: Ariana Madix

#20. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that. - Author: Brian Houston

#21. From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness. - Author: Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#22. When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself. - Author: Christopher Young

#23. I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind. - Author: Dean Wareham

#24. She had tried to make herself like stone, but now the facade was falling away. - Author: Ransom Riggs

#25. I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus - Author: Katheryn Winnick

#26. I don't think Bible verses were meant to be thrown like grenades at each other. They were meant for us to use to point each other toward love and grace and invite us into something much bigger. - Author: Bob Goff

#27. I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. - Author: Steven Soderbergh

#28. The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it. - Author: Ernest Becker

#29. With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination. - Author: Mitsuo Fuchida

#30. Had music not delivered Richard, too, on more than one occasion, from a life he'd believed himself trapped in? The tempos had changed, but that almost didn't matter. The point, now as then, was to tune in to something bigger than yourself, and to feel around you others who felt as you did. - Author: Garth Risk Hallberg

#31. Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished. - Author: Jack Lovelock

#32. When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology ... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion. - Author: Alfonso Cuaron

#33. When the whole point was that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#34. What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or resources cease to be worthwhile in light of the price paid in other ways. - Author: Mary Roach

#35. When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV. - Author: Alfred Amoroso

#36. We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite. - Author: R. Buckminster Fuller

#37. It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive - Author: Bhikkhu Bodhi

#38. Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over. - Author: Tony Hsieh

#39. follows: to understand the future to the point of being able to predict it, you need to incorporate elements from this future itself. If - Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#40. There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people. - Author: Lawrence Weiner

#41. It seems obvious, doesn't it, that someone who is ignored and overlooked will expand to the point where they have to be noticed, even if the noticing is fear and disgust. - Author: Jeanette Winterson

#42. It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all. - Author: Stevie Smith

#43. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone. - Author: Deborah Harkness

#44. I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal. - Author: Michelle Shocked

#45. I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view. - Author: Bjorn Lomborg

#46. So if you are writing a story where love is the meaning, where love is the highest and best of all, where love is the point, then you have to allow each person a choice. - Author: John Eldredge

#47. After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice. - Author: Alexander Kotov

#48. Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally. - Author: Alan Sugar

#49. All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses. - Author: Heather Marsh

#50. I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums. - Author: Don McLean

#51. 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. - Author: Manu Bennett

#52. To run 100 miles and more is to bring the body to the point of breaking, to bring the mind to the point of destruction, to arrive at that place where you can alter your consciousness. - Author: Scott Jurek

#53. I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there. - Author: Deborah Kara Unger

#54. Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. - Author: Henry Ward Beecher

#55. 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. - Author: Suzanne Collins

#56. When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted. - Author: Angela Lansbury

#57. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget - Author: Edgar Allan Poe

#58. I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to the point where we are sitting here. - Author: Justin Long

#59. From a legal point of view - " He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it suits them, ignore it where it doesn't. They're clerics, Archeth. They spend their whole fucking lives selectively interpreting textual authority to advantage. - Author: Richard K. Morgan

#60. If you want to control others you will not be able to meditate. About that one point, be absolutely certain. - Author: Osho

#61. There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin. - Author: Anne Rice

#62. Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism
which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. - Author: Hunter S. Thompson

#63. There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. - Author: James Baldwin

#64. I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically. - Author: Stephen Sondheim

#65. DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes." ROMANS 6:13B (TEV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of my life am I holding back from God? - Author: Rick Warren

#66. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance. - Author: Tom Lehman

#67. No one has, or ever will, be able to experience or express your singular point of view, which is why it is so important, both for you and all humanity, that you follow your heart. - Author: Robbie Vorhaus

#68. I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera. - Author: Brody Jenner

#69. I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny, so they don't care - in the sense that they know what they're doing. They have a skill. - Author: Ted Alexandro

#70. Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, waited to get to this point where I could appreciate and value him most. - Author: Linda Winfree

#71. A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing ... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less ... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. - Author: Cat Stevens

#72. 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 - Author: Suzanne Collins

#73. I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release. - Author: Rostam Batmanglij

#74. You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic. - Author: Junot Diaz

#75. 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. - Author: Dale Peck

#76. You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke. - Author: Donald Miller

#77. No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise? - Author: Terry Pratchett

#78. He wanted to dismiss Saint Rosaline's comments out of hand, but this was impossible because he knew that the comments came from the recesses of this own mink. Either that, or he was truly going mad, which at this point seemed like an attractive option. - Author: Suzanne Harper

#79. Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.' - Author: Dennis Hull

#80. I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things. - Author: Rick Moranis

#81. If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. - Author: Jeff Flake

#82. I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point. - Author: Jon Krakauer

#83. But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it. - Author: Pete Docter

#84. My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point. - Author: Paul Dano

#85. When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me. - Author: Patty Griffin

#86. My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble.'
pg 169-170 - Author: Sarah Dessen

#87. What's the point of making a nice guy like me?" Georgie said. "Nice guys like everybody."
"You shouldn't have to make anybody like you, Georgie. You should want to be with somebody who can't help but like you. - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#88. There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other. - Author: Taisha DeAza

#89. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight. - Author: Erica Jong

#90. I made what must have been about a sixty-point turn and eventually managed to squeeze out of the small and crowded car park at the rear - Author: Andy McNab

#91. The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of arrival, which is God, in that transcendent fullness where the risen Christ embraces and illumines all things. - Author: Pope Francis

#92. Was on the point of crying at her, 'Don't you hear them?' The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the - Author: Joseph Conrad

#93. The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away - to go, as he concluded, 'anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world! - Author: Alain De Botton

#94. The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed. - Author: John Newton

#95. I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death. - Author: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#96. Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point. - Author: Drayton Bird

#97. I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans. - Author: Rian Johnson

#98. I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. - Author: Rutherford B. Hayes

#99. SOMETIMES THE POOL-PAH," Bokonon tells us, "exceeds the power of humans to comment." Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as "shit storm" and at another point as "wrath of God. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#100. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. - Author: Ruth Rendell