Point Where Quotes
730 Point Where quotes by 631 unique authors
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When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, femaleā¦. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real…
— Denis Leary
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to…
— Frank Zappa
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but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking…
— Jose Saramago
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As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching…
— Paul Rudnick
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
— Dorothy Parker
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The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the…
— Sheri L. Dew
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We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
— Ram Dass
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You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path.…
— Joseph Campbell
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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides…
— Susan Howatch
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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness,…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at…
— Michael Marshall Smith
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Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened…
— Haruki Murakami
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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is…
— Norman Mailer
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
— Unknown Author
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Charlie had Sophie strapped to his chest like a terrorist baby bomb when he came down the back steps. She had just gotten to the…
— Christopher Moore
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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set…
— Saint Augustine
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Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real…
— Shannon Hale
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People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions.…
— Amin Maalouf
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I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the…
— Haruki Murakami
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course,…
— Victor Hugo
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[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now,…
— Nora Ephron
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