Points Quotes
1291 quotes by 1091 authors
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The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.
— Jeaniene Frost
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Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a…
— Rachel Caine
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The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of…
— Gail Carriger
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What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,†Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe…
— Thomas Harris
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You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of…
— Neil Gaiman
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Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn —…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the…
— C.S. Lewis
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While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping…
— Bell Hooks
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You can always win points; winning people’s respect is a lot more important.
— John Flanagan
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Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning bolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra…
— Rick Riordan
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The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made…
— Brigham Young, Jr.
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The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we…
— Sean M. Carroll
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I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry,…
— Rupert Murdoch
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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying…
— Alan Kay
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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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