Pointing Quotes - Page 16

• I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Confused, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Journey, Knives

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.111, Oberon Books

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• [H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as the anti-christ. This is all in The Necronomicon, something Lovecraft actually did make up.

  Paul Laffoley

  Home, Cities, Space

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

  Simon Sinek

  Vision, Doe, Asking

  Source: www.quickbase.com

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• I can respect the gulf that separates alpinism from a running race and still appreciate that the physiology that accounts for endurance is the same if you are running a foot race in the city park or front pointing up the second ice field on the north face of the Eiger.

  Steve House

  Running, Feet, Race

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• [Donald Trump] is not cool and therefore they're very proudly pointing out that none of them are gonna perform at his inauguration.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trump, Inauguration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm not interested in, you know, turning the clock back or pointing fingers, but I am interested in trying to figure out how we come together to chart a better way forward and one that will restore confidence in, you know, small and medium-size businesses and consumers and begin to chip away at the unemployment rate.

  Hillary Clinton

  Way Forward, Trying, Together

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.

  J. K. Rowling

  Window, Break, Professor Mcgonagall

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• Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Success, Goal, People

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• As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

  Helen Palmer Geisel

  Moon, Fingers, Pointing Fingers

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• Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window

  Steve Kluger

  Song, Fun, Grateful

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• This is Simba," Nicole said, pointing to the lion. "Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase. "Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much.

  Roland Smith

  Lions, Said, Nicole

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• You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at will be our winner." "I've played that game once before. Ended up--" Paris shuddered. "Never mind. It's not good to wander down that particular memory trail. So no. Just no.

  Gena Showalter

  Memories, Eye, Games

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Passion”, p.20, HQN Books

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• Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

  Franz Kafka

  Sun, Misery, Deny

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.112, Schocken

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• It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves as less fortunate than others, by repeatedly talking about eh billions of dollars in 'windfall profits' earned by major corporations, by featuring periodic stories on the opulent living of wealthy individuals, or by pointing an accusing finger at 'loopholes' used by 'the rich.'

  Robert Ringer

  Media, Talking, People

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• And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

  Willard Libby

  Goal, Achievement, Done

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• Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing.

  Lee Strobel

  Steps, Evidence

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• Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.

  Brian Wesbury

  Strong, Past, Reality

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• More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

  Samuel Johnson

  School, Mind, Radiation

  James Boswell, Alexander Napier, Richard Duppa, Robina Napier, Samuel Johnson (1884). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the journal of a tour to the Hebrides: James Boswell”

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• People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.

  Rob Zombie

  War, Games, People

  "Rob Zombie Goes Six Feet Under with The Devil's Rejects". Interview with Movieweb, movieweb.com. July 20, 2005.

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• All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Humble, Four, Should

  "Michael Eric Dyson and 'Is Bill Cosby Right?'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 11, 2005.

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• There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.

  Brad Pitt

  Gun, Stories, Aspect

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.

  Ann Coulter

  White, House, Annoyed

  "Ann Coulter on the Harriet Miers Nomination". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2005.

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• Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

  Hugh Ross

  Effort, Scary, Research

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• Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

  Francois Rabelais

  Strong, Wall, Military

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