Pointing Quotes - Page 19

• Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Mistake, Moon, Fingers

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• The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

  Barney Frank

  Rights, People, Done

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• You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Fuel, Fossils, Economic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.

  Howard Dean

  Kids, Night, Hobbies

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We need to start acting like a team, focus on winning and not worry about all of the other stuff that goes on. We lost our focus last year. We worried about who was being hired, who was being fired. That's got to change. We don't need any more finger pointing. We need to act like a team.

  Albert Belle

  Team, Winning, Years

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• Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.

  Rachel Caine

  Bullets, Idiot, Please

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.230, Allison & Busby

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• I don't think it's easy for women to watch themselves age. And I think it's obviously doubly hard to grow older when you are a public figure and you constantly have to see your image all the time, and people are constantly pointing it out.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Hi, Max," she said, pushing her shades up onto her curls. "I hope your wearing sunscreen," i said, “your gonna have hella wrinkles by the time your ten.” “Want some daiquiri?” she offered, pointing at a blender. “Is it traitor flavored?” I asked.

  James Patterson

  Wrinkles, Curls, Max

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride: Fang: Dystopian Science Fiction”, p.251, Random House

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• I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

  Tony Abbott

  Friendship, Australia, Depth

  Joint Doorstop Interview, Launceston with Eric Hutchinson, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 19, 2015.

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• I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love You, Mean, Gun

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• ... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Running, Desire, Looks

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• He acts without contact, instructs without meeting, guides without pointing. Desires do not conflict with Him, thoughts do not mingle with Him: His essence is without qualification (takyeef), His action without effort (takleef).

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Essence, Effort, Desire

  "Doctrine of Sufis". Book by Muhammed Al-Kalabadhi, translated by A.J. Arberry. Chapter 5, p. 16, 1977.

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• Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had cells!" "His memory is there." "His memory is here," I said, pointing at my head. "Dad had a spirit," she said, like she was rewinding a bit in our conversation. I told her, "He had cells, and now they're on rooftops, and in the river, and in the lungs of millions of people around New York, who breathe him every time they speak!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mom, New York, Dad

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Oil, Dollars, Lessons

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• All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Language, Mist

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• Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has changed their lives. Most people today will grant that fire and the wheel are the big two. After that, any attempts to rank the greatest ideas of all time are going to draw lots of argument. You’ll have zealots pimping this god or that on the one hand, scientists pimping Darwin on the other, and then practical people pointing at written language and saying, look, fellas, the reason those ideas have gone viral is because someone figured out how to write them down.

  Kevin Hearne

  Writing, Fire, Hands

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.643, Del Rey

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• Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Letting Go, Religious

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• I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.

  Joss Whedon

  Loyalty, Heart, Mean

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Tree, Looks

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• Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

  Frank Pittman

  Couple, Cheer, Brass Bands

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• The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

  David Levithan

  Falling In Love, Silly, Heart

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future.  I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology.  This does not call for scientists to manage society.  What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment.

  Jacque Fresco

  Intelligent, Technology, Doe

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• Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

  N. T. Wright

  Sky, Shining, Sun

  "Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sens". Book by N. T. Wright, 2006.

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• What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "Job Market Strong as Graduates Enter Real World" by Lindsay Hamilton, abcnews.go.com. May 12, 2007.

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