The Point Quotes

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.

The great point guards make everybody else better.

When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching.

God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.

Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on "a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.