Points Quotes
1291 quotes by 1091 authors
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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
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we…
— Tom Stoppard
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There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it…
— Tom Robbins
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...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for…
— Richard Dawkins
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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden…
— Dalai Lama
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A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.
— Mary Ruefle
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Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and…
— Tennessee Williams
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
— Jim Morrison
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A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has…
— John Steinbeck
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at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.
— John Madden
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To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the…
— Francis Schaeffer
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The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you…
— Haruki Murakami
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You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?†Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?†Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective,…
— Ted Dekker
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If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and…
— Seamus Heaney
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Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.
— Albert Ellis
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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes…
— Billy Joel
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699
— Thomas Pynchon
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Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people
— Ani DiFranco
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The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all…
— Adolf Hitler
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