Top 772 Pointed Quotes & Sayings

I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you; it radiates from within you.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my part. It's only recently that that's been pointed out by the media . . . or pointed out by fans. I also find complicated, flawed characters interesting. What's the opposite? To play one-dimensional, boring failures?

We have always pointed out discrepancies in the government. It was not for my personal benefit but for the people.

He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

Parents really just need support and not to be blamed and not to have fingers pointed at them.

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer.

Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

We’re burning,” Sadie pointed out helpfully. “Noticed!” I yelled back.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

. . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown form fairly streaking across the sky. We could see that it was a German machine, and when it got above and behind our middle machine, it dived on it for all the world like a huge hawk on a hapless sparrow.

Your problem, it is not here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's throat - 'it is here' - he pointed the pen at Max-Ernest's chest. 'My heart is heavy, too. But you must be strong. This situation, it is very serious. It is not only Cass's life that is at stake. If she dies, the Secret, it will die too.

Better pointed bullets than pointed words.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

I'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.

Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

You'll be alive', he pointed out. 'That's what matters. Enjoy what you have, every little detail of wherever you are. Don't focus on where you aren't.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

I can't imagine how traumatic it must be to have a gun pointed to your head for no reason at all.

Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper." He pointed in Kat's direction.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

He saved your life,” Clary pointed out. “Details,” said Simon dismissively.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

Will pointed a finger accusingly in their direction. "You're ganging up on me. Is this how it's going to be from now on? I'll be the odd man out? Dear God, I'll have to befriend Jessamine." "Jessamine can't stand you," Jem pointed out. "Henry, then." "Henry will set you on fire.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

Only a dog would lick a finger pointed in anger.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

I don't think that anything that anyone is doing today that is being pointed at as the "enemy" or "the problem" is as dangerous to our future as the fact that there are so many pointed fingers. The pointed finger is the enemy.

...go in the direction your head is pointed in.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

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