Pointed Quotes

490 Pointed quotes by 378 unique authors

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world. — Michael Franti
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals,… — Atul Gawande
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle… — Frances Farmer
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms… — Tom Hiddleston
The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never… — Denis Leary
Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out… — David O. McKay
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until… — Robert Morgan
This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the… — Grover Norquist
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If… — Barack Obama
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad. — Gary Oldman
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. — Jean Paul
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. — Steven Pinker
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for… — Tariq Ramadan
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Herbert Read
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals… — Juan Williams
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old… — Kevin Barry
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed… — Tullian Tchividjian
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward… — Nelson Mandela
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At… — Mervyn Peake
We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack… — Harlan Ellison
An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what… — Terry Pratchett

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