Points Quotes - page 4

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream. (Jeanette Winterson)
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. View quote
George H. W. Bush
It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath. View quote
Steven M. Greer
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points. View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. View quote
Florence Scovel Shinn
We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points. View quote
Margaret Fuller
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages - it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments - or "Moses' talking points" - but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone." View quote
Ann Coulter
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. View quote
Edith Wharton
Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble. It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, "There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs." View quote
Sam Harris
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. (Sun Myung Moon)
Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. View quote
Dr. Seuss
The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself. View quote
Nhat Hanh
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. View quote
Bruce Sterling
There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
A hallmark of sanity, Alex, is the courage to face even unpleasant points of view. View quote
David Brin
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right. View quote
John Buchan
Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents. View quote
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman, and am kind to his people-the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected. (Thomas Nagel)
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? View quote
Thomas Pynchon
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God. View quote
Charles Kingsley
One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov