Point
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
Author: Viktor E. FranklTopics: Expect, Life, Point
There’s no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
Author: J. Carter BrownTopics: Famous, Point, Unnecessarily
The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Famous, Point, Sensitive, Sincere
To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Topics: Home, Home life, Lively, Living, Living Being, Living Fully, Poems, Poet, Poetic, Poetry, Poets, Point, Point of view
It was a typical point, made in typical style, mixing pride and humility.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Famous, Humility, Point, Pride, Style
On style points alone, Donald Trump makes GWB look magnificently presidential.
Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: Donald Trump, Famous, Look, Point, Presidential, Style
For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point verged between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Darkness, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Light, Meaningful, Nonbeing, Point, Tell, Time, Waking
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Famous, Illusion, Point, Pure, Truth, Untouched
In such situations, of course, people don’t nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that’s the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer’s delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn’t be moaning.
Topics: Enjoy, Enjoyment, Express, Expression, Famous, Freaky, Free, Free-kick, Freely, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Moaning, Point, Points of view, Straightforward, Suffer, Suffering
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Author: Rudyard KiplingTopics: Everyone, Famous, Meaningful, Point
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Dangerous, Move, Movement, Poets, Point, Point out, Points of view, Prosperity, Will, Will power, Willingness
But you come to a point in your life when you can’t pull the trigger anymore.
Author: Evel KnievelTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Point, Points of view
My point exactly. We still depend on Roger Clemens being out there on the mound. We still depend on our stars leading the way.
Author: Hale IrwinTopics: Depends, Famous, Meaningful, Point, Stars
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Famous, Laws, Living, Physics, Point, Understood
What’s the point of both of us being broken-hearted? I pray it’s never too late
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Broken, Hard, Hard conditions, Heart, Heart-Broken, Point, Points of view, Pray
Talent is important but it is not the key point.
Topics: Importance, Key, Keystone, Point, Point out, Talent, Talk
The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.
Author: Cristiano Ronaldo
Topics: Care, Career, Champ, Leads, League, Management, Manchester United, Point, Points of view, Strong memory, Unite, Will, Will power, Winning
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Author: Confucius
Topics: Famous, Good, Life, Meaningful, Point, Reflection, Reform, Seeking, Seeking comfort, Weak, Weakened
I think it’s important for people who don’t know you to get a sense of the way you view the world, your politics, your point of view. I think that helps people understand your takes on various things.
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Famous, Feelings, Help, Helping, Life, Meaningful, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Point, Point out, Things, Understand, Understanding, Understanding Language, Viewers, Violent
If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Famous, Feelings, Heard, Hearing, Life, Meaningful, Point, Point out, Resume, Retelling, Retreats, Someone, Something, Still, Stillness
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Author: PlutarchTopics: Enjoy, Famous, Meaningful, Point
The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.
Author: R. Buckminster FullerTopics: Empty, Famous, Meaningful, Point
Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Famous, Love, Meaningful, Point, Single, Space
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Point, Transformation
I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.
Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Famous, Life, Little, Meaningful, Point, Points of view, Solving, Somebody, Wanted
I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through – creating a through point for a theatrical device.
Author: David BowieTopics: Carrying, Famous, Meaningful, Point
You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
Author: David BowieTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Point
Why should poetry have to make sense?
Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Existential Questions, Existing situation, Poetry, Poets, Point, Sense, Sense of admiration, Sense of belonging
There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?
Author: Dalai LamaTopics: Famous, Guide, Life, Meaningful, Point, Truth
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
Author: Charles Bukowski
Topics: Distance, Often, Old, Point, Points of view, Shores of knowledge, Short, Shortage, Valuable, Valuable lesson
There was a touch of mysticism and poetry in her nature which made her love to gaze at the purple sunsets and watch the evening stars
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Poet, Poetry, Point, Pure, Purple, Purposeful, Sunset, Superior, Total, Touch
I should never like scolding anyone else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.
Author: George EliotTopics: Famous, Husband, Point, Scolding, Thoughts
You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.
Author: BuddhaTopics: Peaceful, Poem, Point, Strive, Yourself
It is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Author: Arthur SchopenhauerTopics: Degree, High, Point, Suffer, Suffering
Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Correct, Famous, Meaningful, Point, Political, Soul, Views
People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Famous, Life, Missing, People, Point, Pure entertainment
Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
Author: Blaise PascalTopics: Point, Rejoicing, Secrets
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Point, Political
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Courage, Experiences, Facts, Famous, Feelings, Human Being, Inspirational, Instrument, Life, Meaningful, Point, Politician, Positive, Possibility, Victim, War
Topics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Loving Strongly, Loyalty, Meaningful, Person, Personal Appearance, Personal Expectations, Poem, Point, Positive
Please all, and you will please none
Author: AesopTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Please, Pleasure, Point, Poor, Will, Willingness
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Everywhere, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Imagination, Inspirational, Life, Point
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Topics: Everybody, Famous, Feelings, God, Life, Point, RealityA Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing
Author: Abu BakrTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Personal Identity, Personality, Perspective, Point, Positive Change, Time
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
Author: Abraham MaslowTopics: Ability, Famous, Life, Passionate, Point, Positive, Positive Words, Powerful Message, Science