Point Quotes

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

And I mean, I'm established. So I'm not worried about having a hit at this point in my career.

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.