Pointing Quotes - Page 17

• Shh!" the guy beside me hissed again. "Blame him," I told the guy, pointing at Patch. The guy craned his neck back. "Listen," he said, facing me again. "If you don't quiet down, I'll get security." "Fine, go get security. Tell them to take him away," I said, again signaling Patch. "Tell them he wants to kill me." "I want to kill you," hissed the guy's girlfriend.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Girlfriend, Guy, Shh

  "Hush, Hush". Book by Becca Fitzpatrick, October 13, 2009.

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• Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Reality, Soul

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.532

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• Religion is pointing toward the moon

  Joan D. Chittister

  Moon

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• Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

  Mona Simpson

  Mother, Horse, Kings

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• My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

  Katherine Applegate

  Wall, Glasses, Light

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Editors, Feet

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

  Sophy Burnham

  Loyalty, Angel, Thinking

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• The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.

  Kit Williams

  Rabbits, Significant, Form

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• I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon.

  Gautama Buddha

  Moon, Looks, Awareness

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• Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.

  Steven Forrest

  Reality, Astrology, Fingers

  Steven Forrest (1984). “The Inner Sky: The Dynamic New Astrology for Everyone”, p.5, Dubois Publishing

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• I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .

  Corliss Lamont

  Religious, Art, Philosophy

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• Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

  H. G. Wells

  War, Gun, Men

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.114, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Work Out, World

  Alexander McCall Smith (2009). “Tea Time for the Traditionally Built”, p.10, Anchor

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• First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

  Alva Myrdal

  War, Tools, Rivals

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

  Michael Connelly

  World, Paradise, Way

  Michael Connelly (2003). “Lost Light”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

  Martin Parr

  Trying, Cameras, Shooting

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• And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

  Justin Guarini

  Responsibility, Knowing, Issues

  "Justin Guarini says he has no hard feelings for 'IDOL' - really!" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 23, 2006.

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• There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.

  Bruce Riedel

  Military, Iraq, Broken

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• Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see what's actually there. Their perceptions are less clouded by belief systems, taboos, habits of thought. One responsibility of management--an important one--is to call attention to the invisible obvious, pointing it out as a child does (sometimes to the embarrassment of adults). Doing so also requires supporting employees who take that risk, too, and other risks as well.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Responsibility, Risk

  Richard Farson, Ralph Keyes (2003). “Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.

  Aaron Gillespie

  Jesus, People, Ifs

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• The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

  Shane Smith

  Race, Different, Kind

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• I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

  Todd Barry

  Mean, Errors, Logic

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• He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear of death... Then something incomprehensible and frightening happened. ... He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. ... The next moment, after a final effort, the spirit wrenched itself free of the flesh.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  War, Eye, Hands

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• Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

  Michael Enzi

  Government, Needs, Inward

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• Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

  Dennis Oppenheim

  Heaven, Upside Down, Hell

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