Top 100 Was The Point Quotes
#1. But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me? What others did was their responsibility, for which they would answer when the judgment trumpet sounded.
James Baldwin
#2. He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying. He
Brandon Sanderson
#3. What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?
Alexandra Bracken
#4. Well? Sanford prompted. She looked at him.
"Well what?"
"What was the point? Why did you do this?"
She stared at him in obvious confusion. "I wanted to help."
"Shouldn't that count for something?
R. Lee Smith
#5. TV drama - not always, but on the whole - were pretty appalling and very secondary, too. No one expected it to be like watching a movie; that was the point. But I think when you start watching 'Vikings,' it is like watching a movie - you're taken somewhere else.
Michael Hirst
#6. What was the point in all the fighting with gauntlets if they were only going to stop fighting the moment the outnumbered fools decided the fight was over? Rowl flicked his tail in exasperation. Humans.
Jim Butcher
#7. What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson?
Laura Lippman
#8. What was the point of giving your life to someone if they didn't feel essential to you, if they didn't feel part of you?
Suzanne Wright
#9. She put down her porridge bowl and tried the tea. It was, somehow, worse than she'd expected: not just bitter, but so astringent that it curdled her tongue. It woke her up, though, and that was the point.
Liane Merciel
#10. Last night they hadn't even fucked. What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?
Josh Lanyon
#11. But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?
Libba Bray
#12. Maybe that was the point of truth
you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there to be discovered again
Scott Westerfeld
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. What was the point of a sacrifice if it wasn't meant for the ones you loved?
Jana Oliver
#16. Their mothers were nobodies," Marian (Max's mom) said. "Donor eggs. Lab workers, techs, anyone we found. That was the point- that we could create a superrace out of anything. Out of trash."
Well, you're right there," I said. "Because we are a superrace. And I did come from trash.
James Patterson
#17. That's what hope was. Clinging to something you weren't sure would ever be yours. But you had to hold on anyway, because without it, what was the point?
Jennifer Rush
#18. He scanned the parking lot, searching for the bad guys, knowing they could be anywhere. Goddamn it. This was the USA. None of this stuff was supposed to happen here. Yeah. Which was the point these fuckers were trying to make. Welcome to the rest of the world.
Toni Anderson
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
Terry Pratchett
#22. 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
#23. If I can only be my true self in the virtual world ... then what was the point of coming back to reality after all?
Reki Kawahara
#24. That was the point where she was supposed to sound tough, like she was someone to be reckoned with, like she was the sort of person witches should listen to. Was this really her plan? She sounded like a child.
Anne Ursu
#25. Veronika was disconcerted at first and then realized that she had nothing to lose. She was dead; what was the point of continuing to feed the fears or preconceptions that had always limited her life?
Paulo Coelho
#26. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
Jodi Picoult
#27. They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both felt that, in many ways, they were one person?
Georges Simenon
#28. What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?
Julian Barnes
#29. What was the point of loving when the people you loved were taken from you? When Death and Time were always looming and poised to strike, why did love exist?
Alexandra Monir
#30. What was the point in living if I was only going to travel the same roads again and again?
Cora Carmack
#31. And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.
Amanda Coplin
#32. Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive. Right now I wonder what that was all about. What was the point of all of that? I don't think there's any appetite from the American people to go back and do our work twice.
Scott Perry
#33. In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
Janet Fitch
#34. And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.
J.K. Rowling
#35. The trouble was, how could you know what question to ask? It seemed to her that you were in a position to ask a really correct question only if you already knew the answer, and what was the point of that?
Julian Barnes
#36. What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?
Stacey Kade
#37. What was the point of starting a new life if she did everything the same as her old one?
Donna Cummings
#38. What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
Erica Jong
#39. When I originally sold X-Men it was because I knew there was 40 years of stories. That was the point! Not only to do the movie and establish the characters, you know, you love the one you're doing. It was because there are all these great stories, what a wealth of drama.
Lauren Shuler Donner
#40. And if you can't trust an ancient talking tree, what was the point of having one?
Michael J. Sullivan
#41. But had he felt the same crackle of electricity when they'd met? Was it possible for only one person to feel that kind of instant attraction, that almost irresistible pull towards someone else? Surely it had to work two ways, or what was the point of it?
Lulu Taylor
#42. Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.
Ricky Gervais
#43. Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.
John Battelle
#44. What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?
Brodi Ashton
#45. She knew so many people so many but what was the point? How many of them did she really care about? How many of them really cared about her?
Amy Zhang
#47. Still, what was the point to love if it didn't make you feel like you could fly? You might as well live alone.
Barbara Bretton
#48. I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.
Camille Claudel
#49. None of that 'Oh, I'm not hungry; I'll just have a salad' crap so many woman pulled, as if he'd think they were less attractive somehow if they ate like real human beings. Nothing could be further from the truth. After all, what was the point in taking a woman out for dinner if she didn't like food?
Jackie Barbosa
#50. - what was the point of having an Emperor, if you couldn't cook up spicy rumors about him?
Kate Quinn
#51. And what was the point of an easy answer like that. Where did it lead. Nowhere good, in his experience. Easy answers got to be an addiction; Terrible had spent his whole life seeing people reach for easy but find they really grabbed hard without realizing it.
Stacia Kane
#52. Every man had to die. He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time ago. And what was the point in doing this if the effect was merely to poison the present? There were many wrongs in the past, but did it help to keep bringing them up and giving them a fresh airing?
Alexander McCall Smith
#54. Is this what all the years of schooling were for?
To prepare me for this
Sense of being stuck in the middle?
What was the point?
No one said I was going to be this sad.
No one said I would still be crying.
Samantha Schutz
#55. You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper.
Melissa Kantor
#56. When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
Azar Nafisi
#57. What was the point of trying at all, if in the end you were no better, no longer, no more real than a bathroom sink and a rust stain?
Lauren Oliver
#58. Love and trust and believing in other people
what was the point when humans were all flawed and fucked up anyway, when they only hurt each other continuously because they were too stupid to do anything else?
Santino Hassell
#59. Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich
which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free
to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed.
James Carlos Blake
#60. What was the point of all this? Flying all over Norway to read for ten minutes to four people? Talking smugly about literature to twelve people? Saying stupid things in the newspapers and burning with shame the day after
Karl Ove Knausgard
#61. That man loved me so hard I knew I'd never do half of what I should to deserve it. And that was the point. He said I never had to do a thing to make him love me. He just did. He just loved me.
Rachael Herron
#62. In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
Patti Smith
#63. What could he have against love? Sure, it sucked sometimes, but what was the point of living if there wasn't love?
Chani Lynn Feener
#64. I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'
Harvey Pekar
#65. What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?
Austin Chant
#66. Well I mean... I thought peace and equality was the point of the truce. Obviously equality was a bunch of crap, but there was this big 'togetherness' campaign which, while being totally dorky, was admittedly at the root a nice idea
Liz Maverick
#67. Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
Neil Gaiman
#68. She liked him too much to marry him, that was the point; something told her that she should not be satisfied, and to inflict upon a man who offered so much a wife with a tendency to criticize would be a peculiarly discreditable act.
Henry James
#69. The eternal now," he said. "She wanted to catch it, remember? To pin it down. That was the point." "Of writing?" "Or suicide.
Ruth Ozeki
#70. What was the point of the Devil if there was a God like that? Maybe there was just the Devil, the real God of this fucking world. Or maybe there was just nothing at all.
Janet Fitch
#71. But what was the point of trying to be something else when everyone already had a preconceived notion of what you were. - Chase
Lacey Weatherford
#72. What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?
Tatjana Soli
#73. I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#74. One should live and die where one was born ... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?
Emil Cioran
#75. [About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to
I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.
Barack Obama
#76. I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence.
Hank Green
#77. People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.
Jon Krakauer
#78. I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
M.I.A.
#79. I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.
Brian K. Vaughan
#80. Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
Scott Westerfeld
#81. And when it came down to it, what was the point in re-examining your sadness all the time anyway? It was like picking at a wound and refusing to let it heal. I knew what I had been part of. I knew what my role was. What was the point in going over and over it?
Jojo Moyes
#82. It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
Douglas Trumbull
#83. Nick? Any idea?"
Nick coughs too. "Nope. No idea at all."
Wilbur gives him a stern look. "So what was the point in doing all the Jane Austen stuff if she doesn't know about it, Poodle-bottom?
Holly Smale
#84. He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn't the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled talent. A lifetime of honing and shaping torn apart in less than a second. All those stories, all those images, and what came out looked like so much oatmeal. What was the point?
Stephen King
#85. But what was the point of love if it didn't keep people from leaving you?
Dia Reeves
#87. When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.
Barack Obama
#88. They had been products of their time, and walking in Birmingham now, Marcus was an accumulation of these times. That was the point.
Yaa Gyasi
#89. What she had, and what Miles would because of her, why that was the point of it all. Wasn't that a brilliant thing? She'd had her shine. And now, somewhere, somehow, for a heart she'd never know, to light a sky she'd never see, someone else was preparing for theirs.
Stephanie Kuehn
#90. He was the point dog, sent in to check for hostiles. His orders were simple. Bite everything. If it screamed, it was hostile.
Eoin Colfer
#91. What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?
James Dashner
#92. A trail of lightning spread across the clouds, and Shadow wondered if that was the thunderbird returning to its high crags, or just an atmospheric discharge, or whether the two ideas were, on some level, the same thing.
And of course they were. That was the point after all.
Neil Gaiman
#93. Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?
Cassandra Clare
#94. Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?
Anne Cassidy
#95. -what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn't even know he was one?
Cassandra Clare
#96. There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time ago. And what was the point in doing this if the effect was merely to poison the present?
Alexander McCall Smith
#97. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.
Norah Vincent
#98. I couldn't figure out how the system worked. And maybe that was the point. If you aren't sure how it works, it's a lot harder to game it.
Stacey Kade
#99. But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn't all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn't have been the real thing.
Edward St. Aubyn
#100. years later, she wondered if that was the point, if sometimes the glory was in rebuilding the broken thing, not the result but the process of trying. The
Brit Bennett
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