Top 1200 West Point Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Everyone wants clean air and clean water, but my hope is that we will not regulate it to the point where we drive businesses and industries out of this country, to the point where entrepreneurs cannot start or expand their businesses because they simply can't afford to do so.

As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

I think that the mourning process of the film involves discussing it, dissecting it, and at some point, you get bored with it. I'm not there yet, but I know I will be there at some point. That's the moment when I know I need to turn the page and move on and recharge my batteries.

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

The West Wing' is an extremely naive entry into politics and political thinking.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.

It was very unusual for anyone to be her own person in the wild West.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

I wish to play again for West Ham before I finish my career.

If I could miracle myself away, I would live out West.

My favorite point guard, growing up, was Magic Johnson. The reason why I say that is he was a winner, and he did everything in his power to make his teammates better. That's what the game is all about as a point guard.

From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.

I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.

If you're not on set, if you're not on stage, go to class. Find teachers you trust and who push you and who you respect as people. That's what you're getting with a teacher: a point of view. You end up taking those points of view and that turns into your point of view as an actor.

I grew up with comics. Whether it be from the East or the West, I devoured them.

You have to move on with your life at some point. You don't quit fighting, fighting quits you at some point. It's very unfortunate, but that's the nature of the beast. And that's one of those things, too, that I like to tell young fighters. Have a backup plan.

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

It's easy to get depressed and think, "Well, what's the point?" But it's the same as, "Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights." You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere.

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.

I went to West Ham in order to play against Arsenal as often as possible.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

If anyone can be said to embody the American Dream, it's Kim Kardashian West.

That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.

When I saw there was interest from West Ham I wanted to become a part of what they are building here.

Do understand: Chinese people are brilliant; the West cannot fool them.

Even the greatest player of all times loses sets or is down in a match. It just shows that, you know, a win is never guaranteed. It shows all of us that we have to work for every point, fight for every point no matter what.

London was an exciting place to work at one point because, socially, it was very progressive - a catalyst. There were very interesting artists making all types of work, but it got to a point where the social aspect became claustrophobic.

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

My tights split while I was tap dancing in the West End in 1993.

I really like the song "Only One" [ Kanye West with Paul McCartney].

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.

He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West.

My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.

There's a point when you're dating someone where you become aware of all the things you kind of thought you couldn't depart from. You kind of build all of these nostalgias and sort of antiquated memories in your mind, and when you're at the point during the breakup, you realise, "you know what, it actually takes a bit more than all this bullshit".

I didn't run for Governor for me; I ran to help the people of West Virginia.

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.