Top 1200 Pointing Fingers Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting my strong fingers together with her frail ones. I rested my forehead against our hands and closed my eyes. I imagined lifting my head up and seeing her smiling, the tape and tubes gone. I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

It's good that fat schoolchildren are no longer bullied, but it's worrying if they feel it's OK to be large because no one is pointing it out.

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

We should be pointing out people's accomplishments rather than their looks, but if it can promote our band, why not?

I broke my wrist on TV trying to do a one-armed push-up. A lot of people delight in pointing this out to me.

All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

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

She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.

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

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.

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

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

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

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

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

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Listen, you. Don't threaten me. I could make your life a nightmare. He put his hand in front of her face and unfolded three fingers as he said, I'm F-B-I. She smiled. It wasn't the reaction he expected. You want to talk nightmares? she said. She put her hand up to his face and unfolded her three fingers. I'm I-R-S.

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

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

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

Nobody is more capable to pointing out the unbalances in, let's say, supermarket prices than women.

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!

I live to feel her fingers move inside of me like this. The bus makes another stop. A fat man climbs aboard, hauling himself up the stairs. I would kill him for one more moment with her fingers inside me. I don’t have to. She gives me my moment for free. He lives because of her generosity. We all live because of her generosity.

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.

My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.

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

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Whenever we were on the road when I was younger, I remember my father pointing out the trucks that had 'Mack' on them.

Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.

I don't see anybody pointing to desktop PCs as being a hot Christmas item.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

All I'm saying is that I rarely find myself pointing to Sean Penn's love life thinking, 'I want to be like that.'