Pointed Quotes

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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct… — John Berger
I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our… — David R. Brower
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. — Meg Cabot
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved,… — Leontyne Price
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global… — Douglas MacArthur
I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And… — Betty Ford
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done… — Kevin Garnett
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… — Bertrand Russell
Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. — Robert Herrick
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention… — Eknath Easwaran
Om is the pointed piece and DhyÃ¢na (meditation) is the friction. — Swami Vivekananda
The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative… — Jonathan Ive
Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in… — Edgar Cayce
For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of… — William Bayliss
When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us… — F. Matthias Alexander
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic… — Chauncey Guy Suits

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