Pointed Quotes

490 quotes by 378 authors

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made… — Earl Blumenauer
One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I… — Emil Zatopek
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at… — Philip Kapleau
Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to… — Eckhart Tolle
Commitment is the ultimate assertion of human freedom. It releases all the energy you possess and enables you to take quantum leaps in creativity. When… — Deepak Chopra
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are.… — Lierre Keith
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history… — Eleanor Clift
The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach… — Heber J. Grant
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
Buy all shoes, both street and running, slightly longer and wider than your bigger foot. Also, avoid pointed shoes. You'll save yourself needless foot pain. — Ted Corbitt
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached… — Marilyn Ferguson
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins;… — Milton Steinberg
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings.… — Umberto Guidoni
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched… — Kit Williams
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he… — James A. Baldwin
The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty… — Arthur Miller
One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for… — Willie Mays
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — Samuel Johnson

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