What Is The Point Of Quotes

#1. What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

Elif Shafak

#2. What is the point of fainting into a man's arms if you are not conscious to enjoy it?

Marie Silk

#3. When real things are so wonderful, what is the point of pretending?

E. M. Forster

#4. What is the point of life if you don't add a little butter sometimes?" She

Amelia LeFay

#5. What is the point of having something lovely if you never share it?

Ally Condie

#6. What is the point of finding the reason as long as you know that you are on the right path? And I have realized lately that the right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. - The Monk (Pg-95)

Shashi

#7. If the prosperity of megachurches was parallel to the prosperity of the people in the community they were in, there would be less to judge them for. But what is the point of a million-dollar mansion surrounded by shacks? What is the point of a billionaire whose closest friends are destitute? Far

Luvvie Ajayi

#8. You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?

Jennifer Garner

#9. What is the point of doing anything if there isn't any point?

Sydney Wilhelmy

#10. Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.

Thomas Sowell

#11. Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.

J.M. Coetzee

#12. What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live.

Manoj Arora

#13. What is the point of magic if we can't fix real problems?

Lev Grossman

#14. But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more!

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#15. What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?

Beeban Kidron

#16. What is the point of me?
Either to change a world-many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every deed a consequence, and in every love and every sorrow truth-or nothing at all.

Claire North

#17. Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down."
"In public? With a servant?" I protest as he starts to draw me down the street.
"What is the point of being the duke's heir if I can't cause a scandal now and then?

Rosamund Hodge

#18. What use are experiences if we're not allowed to remember them? If we forget in order to avoid the pain of loss? What is the point of living if we have to always insulate ourselves?

Carrie Ryan

#19. What is the point of bad dates if not to have amusing anecdotes for your friends?

Gabrielle Zevin

#20. For what is the point of
having something lovely if you never share it?
It would be like having a poem, a beautiful wild poem that no
one else has, and burning it.

Ally Condie

#21. I learnt from an early age the need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

Richard Branson

#22. I want to know
or understand something. I've been sick my whole life. What is the point of being alive if I never get to live?

Erin Kellison

#23. It is our experiences in their entirety that proves to be the mold required to shape us into the person we need to be;for what is the point of life without an exceptional story of overcomed adversities?

Renee' A. Lee

#24. What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#25. What is the point of life except to gather more experiences and to understand yourself?

Jaym Gates

#26. What is the point of you?
The world is ending.
Now it's up to you.

Claire North

#27. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.

Kien Nguyen

#28. Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

Phil Klay

#29. But what is the point of buying vegetables in plastic bags? Everything from the supermarket smells of plastic. Everything from the market smells like it's supposed to.

Jinat Rehana Begum

#30. What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#31. I think you're always subjective because you always have a point of view, but I'm always sort of curious about what is the point of view I don't agree with. There is a truth in that because there always is.

Margaret Brown

#32. Why did you bother creating me, he wanted to ask. Why bother giving me a brain and a realization of how miserable existence can be? Why did you invent creatures who die, and worse, who know they are going to die? What is the point of so unkind an act of creation?

Meg Rosoff

#33. What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

John Hagee

#34. I open the driving range and I close it. I thought you ought to know that I work hard. I like practising. I enjoy it. If I did not enjoy it I would not do it. What is the point of going back to the hotel, having a drink and talking a load of bull?

Vijay Singh

#35. What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

Glenn Beck

#36. If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

Enoch Powell

#37. I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in.

A.M. Homes

#38. Always remember that when a new moment, a new insight, hovers around you, choose the new because the old has not done anything for you, so what is the point of going back? Even if the new proves wrong, then too, choose the new. At least it will be a new adventure; you will come to know something.

Osho

#39. What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

Lauren Bacall

#40. What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

Frank Sinatra

#41. If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?

Matt Damon

#42. Oh Blimey O'Reilly's pantyhose...what is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on.
What light doth through yonder window break?
It's the bloody moon, for God's sake, Will, get a grip!!

Louise Rennison

#43. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#44. When I think of existence, I cannot help but wonder, "What is life, anyway?" Where do I fit in the grand scheme of life? What is the point of it, anyway? Is this a test - and if so, am I passing it?

C.J. Sinclair

#45. What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day?

Kamand Kojouri

#46. What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?

Marie Lu

#47. What is the point of your getting angry with another? By doing this you are like one who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink.

Buddhaghosa

#48. When we have that scene where I shoot that huge machine gun, my first thought was "Why does anybody want this? What is the point of something like this?" I know some people feel powerful or whatever and I'm just like, " I feel like I want nothing to do with this."

Zach Gilford

#49. When death is certain, fear disappears. Fear is only there because of death. But when death is certain and there is no way to avoid it, what is the point of being afraid?

Osho

#50. What is the point of "Quotes Steve likes"?

Moi

#51. Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

John Updike

#52. Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

Jessica Zafra

#53. If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

David Nicholls

#54. What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

John Green

#55. What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

Maurice Sendak

#56. And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Bob Geldof

#57. If you remove the foundation of trust from a relationship, then what is the point of that relationship?

Brandon Sanderson

#58. What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Jim Butcher

#59. What is the point of all the money in the world if you don't have the freedom to do the things you love?

Anamika Mishra

#60. What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don't empower them to fix what's broken?

Ed Catmull

#61. What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)

Wendell Berry

#62. What is the point of living forever if you are stuck on a permanent diet of leaves and twigs?

Jen A. Durand

#63. What is the point of switching identities if you remain the same person you were before?

Tom Gething

#64. What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once.

Ashly Lorenzana

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#66. 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

#67. 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

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

Matt Haig

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. What is the point of love? To distract us.

Catherine Lacey

#72. What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.

Lucy Ellmann

#73. Enjoy your Evening."
"That will depend on the menu. If it's beef, it will be a tolerable meal. If it's chicken ... " Elliot shuddered. "What is the point of chicken?"
"Eggs?

Anne Bishop

#74. He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

Ian McDonald

#75. What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?.

Yash Chopra

#76. 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.

Erica Jong

#77. 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.

Tom Lehman

#78. Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

T. S. Eliot

#79. Your mentor may not be the teacher you dreamed of, and that's the point. This is your education of what is, not what you think should be.

Jeff Goins

#80. The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

Helen Fielding

#81. The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?

Steven Pressfield

#82. I couldn't write. I grew tense. I was strangled by my own ego, by my petty desire for what I perceived to be the literary brass ring. I was missing the point, of course. The reward is in the doing.

Dani Shapiro

#83. but the older he got, the better he understood; forgiveness was an act done after the fact - a piece of the bad deeds future - and if you point the people's eyes to the future they might not see what is being done to hurt them in the present.

Yaa Gyasi

#84. What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

Dave Davies

#85. I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.

Martin Seligman

#86. The whole point of this examination is to make me feel lesser than... but I have spent 20 years seeing how beautiful women are. Not because of how they look, but because of what their bodies can withstand.

Jodi Picoult

#87. When you expect something, it is on the way. When you believe something, it is on the way. When you fear something, it is on the way. Your attitude or mood is always pointing toward what is coming, but you are never stuck with your current point of attraction.

Esther Hicks

#88. I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.

Burt Glinn

#89. This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)

Eugene Taylor

#90. First, I'm a writer; I look at things from a different point of view. The untrained eye is the eye that sees what's been missed.
Devon, from The Dragon's Breath by Jenna Lindsey

Jenna Lindsey

#91. There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Wesley Morris

#92. When we approached the Man of Action guys, we said, "We're not really interested in what's come before, except in the way that we want to make sure that it feels like it's Marvel's Avengers Assemble. From that point on, this is your cast. Go to it and tell great stories."

Jeph Loeb

#93. There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

Felix Frankfurter

#94. You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

A.A. Gill

#95. That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.

Esther Hicks

#96. The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from.

Douglas Wilson

#97. The point to remember, of course, when considering the universe at large is that we don't actually know what is in our own solar system. Now,

Bill Bryson

#98. My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude, which is pretty nice. You get to a point where you don't care so much what people think of you and you care more about yourself.

Norman Reedus

#99. The running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

Mimi Pond

#100. The whole point of wishing is not to focus on what you don't have it's to show you what could be. Once you know what you want then you know what to reach for what to dream about. It's how you change things.

Lisa Mangum