Quotes About Point

I don't see the point of watching men exercise.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point

I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

The human memory is a salamander; it squiggles from point to point, slaloms its way improbably up walls and across ceilings.

Being adjacent to that much beauty—more than adjacent; immersed in, pierced by it—was the point. The physical risks were footnotes.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

His apology had the dull ring of a cracked bell, but I didn't see any point in needling him further.

Students saw traditional religion as a point of departure rather than a place for answers.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

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?

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.