Quotes About Point

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called

But the nature of that particular effect illustrates a powerful new trend in European Christianity that, taken in its many instances, constituted a vitally important turning point in the history of the church.

At a certain point, professors stopped being usefully sensitive and became more like careful retailers who have it as a cardinal point of doctrine never to piss the customer off.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

At this point I'm sure he's more plastic than person, but most people who hate wrinkles become Daleks over time, anyway.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

If you held your head the right way and squinted, we could practically pass for marmosets. Well, the lack of fur and the use of indoor plumbing would give us away, but you get the point. Monogamy is rare among animals, as we have seen, but hardly unheard of.

My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point.

For all other writings should point to the Scriptures, as John pointed to Christ; when he said, "He must increase, but I must decrease." [John 3:30]

The superiority of spiritual power over sensuous is the central point of Christian Science.

despite the efforts of ancient writers to embellish them with dramatic appearances of the gods, uncanny omens and prophetic dreams – the reality of the surroundings was probably mundane. For us, 'to cross the Rubicon' has come to mean 'to pass the point of no return'. It did not mean that to Caesar.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Maybe happiness is about what we can give. Maybe happiness is not a butterfly we can catch with a net. Maybe there is no certain way to be happy. Maybe there are only maybes. If (as Emily Dickinson said) "Forever—is composed of Nows—," maybe the nows are made of maybes. Maybe the point of life is to give up certainty and to embrace life's beautiful uncertainty

The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything.

The idea that you have one true love, that no one else will compare after they have gone. It's a sweet idea, but the reality is terror itself. To be faced with all those lonely years after. To exist when the point of you has gone.

Stories are always best when the story has a bottom line or point, or a comedic punchline, or a lesson to be learned; if there is no point,  the story might not be worth telling. People will usually look for the bottom line or purpose of why the story was told in the first place.

Buddhist texts say that in the cycle of death and rebirth, no place, not even one the size of a needle's point, is exempt from suffering.

Is this the highest point of reason, to realize that the soil beneath our feet is shifting, to pompously name 'interrogation' what is only a persistent state of stupor, to call 'research' or 'quest' what is only trudging in a circle, to call 'Being' that which never fully is?