Pointed Quotes

490 quotes by 378 authors

Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We… — Sri Chinmoy
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. — Tony Hillerman
I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed… — Thomas Eakins
When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have… — Samuel Fuller
I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me. — Unknown Author
I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate… — Barry Sonnenfeld
As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of… — William Eldridge Odom
No one had to impose my enemies on me. I selected them myself. I didn't avoid them: I pointed them out, marked them, attacked them. — Jacobo Timerman
The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle. — Laozi
I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place,… — Lee Kuan Yew
As Einstein himself pointed out. He said weâ€™re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only… — Jack Finney
If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if… — Edwin A. Abbott
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the… — Walter Lang
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. — Gloria Steinem
It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by… — Tom Holt
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But… — David Simon
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is… — Henry D. Taylor
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF… — Robert Baden-Powell
Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that… — B. H. Roberts
Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But… — Earl Hamner, Jr.

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