Pointing Quotes - Page 15

• Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

  LZ Granderson

  Assessment, Self, Blame

  "Negligent parents, lawbreaking kids" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. August 22, 2013.

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• We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others; we actually need to be sharing the gospel and praying for people to be converted.

  Mark Dever

  Errors, People, Needs

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to victory. It should be said that before the sixties or the late fifties many of his ideas brought us victories, and the fundamental principles he advanced were quite correct.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Chinese Revolution, Practice, Ideas

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely states.... Then the British drew a line, and now we're three countries, two of them pointing nukes at each other - the radical Hindu bomb and the radical Muslim bomb.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Years, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical and even anti-Christian cultural influences read the Bible as pointing to something not ultimate, such as material wealth, health, happiness, power, etc.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.

  Thomas Pogge

  Thinking, Should Have, Progress

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

  Hanna Rosin

  Kings, Past, Errors

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• Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

  Dar Williams

  Past, Divine Right, Hegemony

  Source: progressive.org

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• There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Years, Leader

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.

  Christine Quinn

  Talking, Complaining, Done

  "Christine Quinn formally announces bid to be New York's first female mayor" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2013.

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• Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.

  Barry Levinson

  Decision, Sometimes, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody.

  Colin Quinn

  Comedian, Instinct, Existence

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Then the actual count comes in and not only does that not happen, [Donald] Trump wins, Hillary [Clinton] loses, they don't get anywhere near the House. They've lost the Senate. They've lost 1,200 seats in the last three elections. They don't have a national party, just one election. And in this next bite, Kellyanne Conway is pointing this out to them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Winning, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I wanted to create a story that would address America's history, successes, and problems while pointing to a hopeful resolution. I wanted it to be told from the perspective of an "Everyman" point of view.

  Sho Baraka

  Views, America, Perspective

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• If someone's pointing a gun at you, you get a surge of adrenaline, but it would be a lot better if they weren't pointing the gun at you in the first place.

  Allan Nairn

  Gun, Would Be, Firsts

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the majority. Pointing out the history shows that races in the Toss Up column never split down the middle, one party tends to win the lion`s share of them. With two weeks to Election Day, there`s not enough time for republicans to recover toss-up seats in states where Hillary Clinton is currently leading, considering this, early voting is under way, and [Donald]Trump won`t be any help especially since his campaign doesn`t really have a ground game to speak of.

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Winning, Games

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Two, Squinting

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• Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Views, Different, May

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.79

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• We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

  Heidi Julavits

  Childhood, What If, Adults

  Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.12, Penguin

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• I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Moving, Swimming

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats. You only have five states.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, People, Lost

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of Saul Alinsky, the Chicagoan and modern founder of community organizing, or Frank Marshall Davis, the communist journalist and agitator from Chicago who mentored Obama in Hawaii in the latter 1970s, and who Obama warmly acknowledges in his memoirs.

  Paul Kengor

  Community, Chicago, Hawaii

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Responsibility, Winning

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

  Amy Sedaris

  Suicide, Waiting, Mind

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