What Is The Point 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. It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease and comfort and safety. The waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, and everything in between has to bring you that. Or else what is the point?

Daphne Zuniga

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

Amelia LeFay

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

Ally Condie

#7. 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

#8. All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

Bertrand Russell

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Sydney Wilhelmy

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Lev Grossman

#16. 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

#17. I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels."
"Oh, they do that!" Amy laughs. "Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though, is to start with one you're not that bothered about."
What is the point in that?

Teri Terry

#18. Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

Miuccia Prada

#19. I am neither modern nor ancient - just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?

Sadghuru

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

Beeban Kidron

#21. You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

Patrick Dixon

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.

Jamie Hyneman

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

Gabrielle Zevin

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Jaym Gates

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

Claire North

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

John Hagee

#41. 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

#42. It was because I would ask myself, What is the point? I would stay away for a while. But I always came back.

Jane Lotter

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

Glenn Beck

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?

Marta Andreasen

#47. 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

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

Lauren Bacall

#49. What is the point, what is the reason, to lock people away for years, when it seems to mean so very little, even to the jailers who hold the key?

Piper Kerman

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

Frank Sinatra

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

Matt Damon

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. High school students die all over the country - hell, all over the world - every day, and the world keeps spinning. What does it matter? What do any of us matter? What is the point?

Matthew Quick

#56. 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

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

Marie Lu

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life
especially one's politics?

Shane Claiborne

#61. 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

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

Moi

#63. Can there really be a form of verse where all that counts is the number of syllables in a line? No patterning of stress at all? What is the point?
Well, that is a fair and intelligent question and I congratulate myself for asking it.

Stephen Fry

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

John Green

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

Maurice Sendak

#69. What is the point in having a mind unless you can change it?

Anonymous Bosch

#70. 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

#71. Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

Michael Scott

#72. But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

Daniel Handler

#73. Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?

Jaclyn Moriarty

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

Brandon Sanderson

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

Jim Butcher

#76. If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.

Neill Blomkamp

#77. Nonetheless, we offer our forgiveness. What is the point in being a superior civilisation if you can't do that once in a while? I

Alastair Reynolds

#78. I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?

Rumi

#79. 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

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

Ed Catmull

#81. What is the point in consensual opinion?" Bryant asked, exasperated. "If you only discuss matters of interest with like-minded individuals you never learn anything new. Why would I want a peer group on Twitter? They're just going to agree with me.

Christopher Fowler

#82. 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

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

Jen A. Durand

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

Tom Gething

#85. 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

#86. What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

Douglas Adams

#87. What is the point in providing food and shelter for an animal that just soils your furniture, makes your home smell bad, and ultimately dies?

Veronica Roth

#88. Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.

Dat Phan

#89. After all, what is the point in tidying? If it's not so that our space and the things in it can bring us happiness, then I think there is no point at all.

Marie Kondo

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#91. 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

#92. To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?

Victor Hugo

#93. 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

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

Matt Haig

#95. 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

#96. 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

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

Catherine Lacey

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?

Nora Roberts