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Quotes About Point

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.
~ Maria Popova
Exaggeration in every sense is as essential to newspaper writing as it is to the writing of plays: for the point is to make as much as possible of every occurrence. So that all newspaper writers are, for the sake of their trade, alarmists: this is their way of making themselves interesting.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
~ Arthur Shopenhauer
To live in regret and change nothing else in your life is to miss the entire point.
~ Augusten Burroughs
another proof of smartness is the fact that the Na'vi evidently targeted the tyres, which look like the vehicle's weak point
~ Stephen Baxter
That's an interesting point,' said Adrian, 'in the sense of not being interesting at all.
~ Stephen Fry
Men tend to devote themselves to those things which fascinate them to the point of obsession,' she observed, as they reached the overgrown brambles through which there was only a narrow twisting track. 'They are excessively selfish creatures, in the main.
~ Emma Drummond
You're all wet and muddy!" Briarlight exclaimed. Yeah, and claws are sharp! Anything else obvious you want to point out?
~ Erin Hunter
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
~ beecher henry ward v
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
~ beecher henry ward xviii
I left in a hurry before he could change his mind, but I want to make it clear that at no point did I break into a skip
~ Ben Aaronovitch
one of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there's no point looking for it.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Even to suggest such a thing stretches absurdity to the point of effrontery.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Polidori had quite a lot to say about the dangers of breaking the pentagram when summoning a spirit. Having your soul dragged out and sent screaming down to hell was only the start of it. At each cardinal point of the pentagram I put one of my calculators.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
However, by August 16, financial conditions had deteriorated to the point where we were ready to be more aggressive.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
had been motivated by the need to act quickly, but, on reflection, I decided that they had a point. At
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Hank's statements were to some extent beside the point,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.
~ Matteo Salvini
The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.
~ Emmanuel Macron
Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
~ Angela Merkel
Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.
~ Gillian Flynn
Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax.
~ Gillian Flynn
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
~ Graham Greene
Most importantly, if we approach the passage with the assumption that the author was concerned with chronology, we miss the profound thematic point the author is making throughout this passage, namely, that God brings order out of chaos. 4.
~ Gregory A. Boyd