The Point Of Quotes

#1. And the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

Louisa May Alcott

#2. The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

Brendan Myers

#3. When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. - SIOUX PROVERB

Jeff Brown

#4. The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

Lillian Smith

#5. I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Rupert Murdoch

#6. 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.

#7. I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.

Richard Grossman

#8. If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

Leontyne Price

#9. You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen ... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

Lucian Freud

#11. I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francoise Sagan

#12. The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Van Morrison

#13. Maybe that was the point of truth
you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there to be discovered again

Scott Westerfeld

#14. How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.

Becky Chambers

#15. Jesus, the Word incarnate, is always the center of our announcement, the point of reference for our evangelizing mission and for its methodology, because He is the human face of God, who wishes to meet all men and women so as to bring them into communion with Him, in His love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#16. Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin.

Lauren Lola

#17. ..They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.

Deb Caletti

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved?

Matt Haig

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue.

Jennifer Salaiz

#25. I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?

Sherman Alexie

#26. I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

Victoria Wood

#27. The point of working isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

David Baraka

#28. Pulaski had never been one for the overwrought plot; any entanglement he could imagine between these two lines of evidence was willful to the point of insanity.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#29. If children don't push the edges now and again, what's the point of being a child?

J.D. Robb

#30. I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

Peter Carey

#31. What was the point of a sacrifice if it wasn't meant for the ones you loved?

Jana Oliver

#32. Love like life should be maddening to the point of fulfillment. It should make the sun shine brighter, and when they look at you, the earth should never be standing still.

Nicole Banks

#33. I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

Ted Nelson

#34. My heart faltered, overcome by its frightened, almost frenzied beating because of something I had just lost, or was on the point of losing for ever. My fingers grasped at his hand with such violence that no force in the world, no matter how great, could take it away from me.

Nawal El Saadawi

#35. Single-minded to the point of recklessness

Ann Brashares

#36. Before the final battle in 'Poison Princess,' Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of exhaustion, then had a trial by fire. In a way, she earned those powers, as she hadn't before, so that was certainly a confidence builder.

Kresley Cole

#37. I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

Larry Flynt

#38. We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

Malorie Blackman

#39. What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.

Francois Jacob

#40. He looked like a Dictator on the point of starting a purge.

P.G. Wodehouse

#41. But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?

Soheir Khashoggi

#42. I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Diane Wakoski

#43. I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

Nick Frost

#44. What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

Morgan Matson

#45. Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

Laura Harvey

#46. What am I doing here, what is the point of these smiles and gestures? My home is neither here nor elsewhere. And the world has become merely unknown landscape where my heart can lean on nothing. Foreign - who can know what this word means?

Albert Camus

#47. The point of business was to make just enough money to keep going, not to create a monster of productivity that chained a person to the wheels of power and stifled all creativity and imagination. Business should not be profit-driven; it should be idea-driven.

James Conaway

#48. Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk.

Michelle Paver

#49. I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

Suzanne Collins

#50. 'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

Penn Jillette

#51. If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

Michel Templet

#52. A decent, educated man cannot afford the luxury of vanity without being exceedingly exacting with himself and without occasionally despising himself to the point of hatred.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#53. Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.

Sue Monk Kidd

#54. If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Vivienne Westwood

#55. Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

Ha-Joon Chang

#56. The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.

Robert Ferrigno

#57. What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Terry Pratchett

#58. The brain chemistry that drives the addict to seek pleasure beyond the point of satiety is similar, whether the user favours Jack Daniels or Jack-in-the-Box.

Vera Tarman

#59. No, it's not invented! What would be the point of 'inventing' Nazism?

Laurent Binet

#60. Hope is all there is. All we have. And love. Or what's the point of any of it?

Sophie Jordan

#61. As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

Henry Rollins

#62. What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

Isaac Marion

#63. Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

Frederick Lenz

#64. For this I suffer, to the point of being bound like a criminal; but God's message is not bound. 2 Timothy 2:9

Beth Moore

#65. I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

Ori Gersht

#66. She asked her parents to buy him the books she'd been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad. "What's the point of buying books for someone who can't read?" her parents asked, legitimately enough, and so she checked them out of her school library and read them to Rahul herself.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#67. What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

Bruce Lansky

#68. The point of Facebook isn't the features, it's the people.

Mark Zuckerberg

#69. The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

Annie Dillard

#70. 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

#71. Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Nick Clooney

#72. What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#73. We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

Josephine Baker

#74. But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

Jena Malone

#75. Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

Anne Tyler

#76. The simple fact is, you are not the point of your life. You are not the star of your show. If you live for yourself, your own comfort, your own glory, your own fame, you will miss out on your very purpose. God created you to bring glory to him.

Tim Challies

#77. The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Jane Jacobs

#78. He was always on the point of 'going away', where it didn't seem to matter ...

William Carlos Williams

#79. What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?

J.D. Robb

#80. Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

#81. My role as your master is to debase you to the point of having no feelings, no emotions, no hopes or dreams

Pepper Winters

#82. The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

John Green

#83. I spy something green," Sally announced.
"Trees," Crina hollered, while Mariana called out, "Grass,"
"Nope," Sally answered.
"What's the point of this game again?" Crina asked.
"Mindless entertainment," Jen announced. "It's what Americans are known for.

Quinn Loftis

#84. Nobody ever feels they're doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think that's kind of the point of them.

Jojo Moyes

#85. It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

Bette Midler

#86. He loved her to the point of madness, to obsession and even sacrifice. He wasn't Berdikhan, and he wouldn't make her Zafira. He'd rob her of her Gift, but she'd live. If he had to destroy Corruption, Conclave and himself, she'd live.

Grace Draven

#87. I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#88. I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?

Ronnie Radke

#89. No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

Michael Grant

#90. From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#91. That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.

Cassandra Clare

#92. Honestly, what was the point of being the leader of the most powerful family in the world if you couldn't even get your little brother to behave like a human being?

Clifford Riley

#93. I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

Walt Disney

#94. What's the point of yelling at the sky, it's not fair, it's not fair? It doesn't change anything.

Karina Halle

#95. What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#96. Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

Abraham Verghese

#97. SEX
Pussy, pussy, pussy.
Cock, cock, cock.
Ass, ass, ass.
The games we play.
No, no, no, makes us obsessed to the point of insanity.
Yes, yes, yes, makes us superior to the point of cruelty.
It's just a fuck, after all.

Robert Black

#98. I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

Zach Braff

#99. Life is a cycle of sadness and joy , Best decision is stop at the point of Happiness .

Arash Pakravesh

#100. The point of all this is to be able to spend more time at the beach!

Nils John Nilsson