| "The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." »Bertrand Russell |
| "There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." »Mother Theresa |
| "There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." »Sun-tzu |
| "A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson |
| "My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else." »Geoffrey Neighor |
| "Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across." »Guy Kawasaki |
| "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." »Dorothy Parker |
| "I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend." »Doug Larson |
| "I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad.N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end." »Psalms 11996 |
| "In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton |
| "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "Where you end up isn't the most important thing. It's the road you take to get you there. The road you take is what you'll look back on And call your life. Not reaching success isn't the end of the world. Not trying to reach it is." »Tim Wiley |
| "If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy." »Samual Rutherford |
| "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." »T. S. Eliot |
| "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." »Lord Acton |
| "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." »Ursula K. LeGuin |
| "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "It may be five years from now, but at some point we'll be better than them." »Dan Issel |
| "The world is round it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff |
| "At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be." »Vinny Nayak |
| "So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain." »Plato |
| "There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." »Carrie |
| "The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." »Peter Ustinov |
| "Strain every nerve to gain your point." »Cicero |
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