Pointed Quotes
490 Pointed quotes by 378 unique authors
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I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
— Daniel Handler
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What's up?" Christian asked. "Need some hairstyling tips?" "Tips you stole from me? No thanks. But I hear you've got a really good bacon meatloaf…
— Richelle Mead
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Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to…
— Ramana Maharshi
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We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an…
— Charles Darwin
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You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
— Larry Niven
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We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such satisfaction with ourselves…
— Ayya Khema
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God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and…
— John Piper
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In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at…
— Tess Gerritsen
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which…
— Dani Shapiro
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks…
— Seth Shostak
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Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted to tackle this…
— Johan Cruyff
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I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money,…
— Lily James
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The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while…
— Roxane Gay
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My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
— Christine McVie
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But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have…
— Jim Walsh
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In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to…
— Kenneth Joseph Arrow
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Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps…
— Neville Marriner
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Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism…
— Trofim Lysenko
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For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of…
— Roman Jakobson
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I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called…
— Kit Bond
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
— Rafik Hariri
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I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets…
— Mark Steyn
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In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what…
— Chris Van Hollen
Who Wrote These Pointed Quotes
378 authors contributed a total of 490 Pointed Quotes, led by these top contributors: