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“In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.”

Writing Mind Reader Occasions Flaws Pointing Accuracy Old Days

Author:Agatha Christie

“War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.”

War Morning Danger Source Politician Chiefs Pointing Unified Declaring Citizenry Prehistory Declaring War

Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.”

Stills Enough Today Religion Universe Causes Can Do Materials Demand Eternal Argument Chains Explanation Pointing Skeptic Plausible Likelihood Infidel Causality

Author:Taner Edis

“Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.”

“There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep pointing you that way, but it is also your job as an actor to understand that there are scenes that you do, particularly when you are the lead, where other people get to come in and steal and you have to let them. I understand that but a good director always reminds you where those moments are.”

People Way Ends Moments Jobs Order Actors Winning Loses Scene Directors Stealing Pointing Good Directors

Author:George Clooney

“I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".”

Thinking Wells Made Hands Certain Shapes Creating Pointing Noticing

Author:Matthea Harvey

“No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.”

May Soul States Enough Heaven Hell Future Opposites Fixed Good Enough Pointing

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.”

Body Joy Pleasure Written Emotional Delight Sensations Pointing Compass Markers True North

Author:Carol Gilligan

“Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.”

Looks Bigs Suffering Buddhism Wheels Pointing Big Picture Wheel Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The road to success is a zigzag, first pointing this way and then that. If we start with high intention, then magic and coincidence will guide us there despite our lack of knowledge about what lies ahead.”

Ifs Way Firsts Success Lying Magic Intention Guides Despite Coincidence Pointing Road To Success Lack Of Knowledge

Book:Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

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

Humanity Fundamentals Delusion Pointing

Book:Zen-Brain Reflections

Source: Zen-Brain Reflections

“Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.”

Mind Humans Special Enlightenment Direct Letters Scripture Realization Human Mind Pointing Reliance Transmission

Book:The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment

Source: The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment

“The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.”

Ifs Feet Streets Cat Dancer Ballet Pointing Lifting Pavement Ballet Dancer

Author:Vera Caspary

“I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!”

Jobs Progress News Foxes Pointing Shouting Fox News

Author:Russell Brand

“More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.”

Mind School Radiation Pointing Collision Private School Emulation

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the journal of a tour to the Hebrides: James Boswell

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the journal of a tour to the Hebrides: James Boswell

“People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.”

“All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.”

Should Four Fingers Humble Pointing

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“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.”

Humans Littles Hands Light Life Is Wall Fingers Glasses Inches Pointing Visitors Pointing Fingers Uninvited Little Hands Flashing Lights

Book:The One and Only Ivan

Source: The One and Only Ivan

“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.”

Long Mother Arms Kings Horse Grandfather Syria Pointing My Grandfather Once Upon A Time Downtown Posh

Author:Mona Simpson

“Religion is pointing toward the moon”

Moon Pointing

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“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!”

Love May Stills Soul Reality Faces Shadow My Soul Thee Pointing Melting

Book:A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.”

Knows Wells Said Strong Cities Virtue Security Military Wall Citizens Discipline Stronger Towns Bones Secure Experts Do You Know Pointing Great Cities Military Discipline

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.”

Ifs Lines Effort Cases Clear Impossible Waste Research Evidence Scientist Scary Brilliant Rejects Pointing

Author:Hugh Ross

“What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.”

Feels House White Position Court Starting Critical Supreme White House Supreme Court Pointing Qualified Attacking Annoyed Elitist

Author:Ann Coulter

“There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.”

Stories Certain Products Gun Aspect Pointing Assassination Bounty Hunted

Author:Brad Pitt

“Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.”

People Wells Care Success Turns Goal Take Care Winner Explanation Reaching Pointing Disgrace Diligence Right Direction Scruples

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.”

Funny Humour Ill Wit Absurdity Pointing

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“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.”

“. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .”

Way Made Facts Form Building Models Useless Shed Pointing

Author:Sylvia Pankhurst

“Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.”

Way Important Sometimes Light Culture Community Mirrors Pointing

Author:Paul Begala

“... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.”

Doe Education Responsibility Failing Awareness Students Obligation Social Responsibility Pointing Implementation

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“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.”

“A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.”

Men Way Hands Three Belief Enjoy Sides Animal Fire Prejudice Crowds Hills Grades Contradiction Agreement Thinker Cows Pointing Shouting Gregarious

Author:William Golding

“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).”

Action Desire Effort Conflict Essence Meetings Guides Contact Pointing Qualifications

Author:Mansur Al-Hallaj

“... 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.”

Looks Seems Running Desire Prove Goodness Bitter Intolerance Pointing Badness Vindictive

Author:J. E. Buckrose

“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.”

Needs Years Lasts Winning Lost Stuff Acting Worry Focus Team Goes On Fingers Worried Last Year Pointing Pointing Fingers

Author:Albert Belle

“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.”

Has Beens Facts Friendship Difficulty Depth Australia Pointing Indonesia

Author:Tony Abbott

“What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But I am not constantly pointing my finger and criticizing things that are a country's internal affairs.”

Doe Country West Fingers Affair Russia Internals Criticize Pointing Internal Affairs

Author:Vladimir Yakunin

“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.”

People Thinking Hard Age Grows Easy Watches Figures Pointing Public Figures

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But it takes a lot of study and familiarity with the work for anyone to really "decode" it, and there are also images that are just thematically important, and not necessarily pointing to specific poems, so mainly it was just a fun puzzle for ourselves.”

Ifs Knows Giving Important Might Fun Study Sections Puzzles Pointing Familiarity Illustration

Author:Sarah Kay

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

Way Earth Race India Burden Pointing

Book:My Picture of Free India

Source: My Picture of Free India

“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.”

“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.”

Looks Levels Tree Photography Fundamentals Etc Pointing Sailboat

Author:Keith Carter

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Needs Kids Night Effects Silent Glad Worried Hobbies Pointing Silent Night

Author:Howard Dean

“White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.”

Kind Dies Freedom White Streets Assuming Fingers Wave Conservative Flags Freak Plastic Pointing Collars White Collar Pointing Fingers Flag Day Flag Waving

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“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.”

Whole Turns Economic Fuel Engines Fossils Pointing Fossil Fuel

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.”

Ifs Way Enough Christian Leadership Walking Following Traveled Pointing

Author:J. Oswald Sanders

“Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts and techniques, and anything that might divert them from doing so is deemed unnecessary. Putting mathematics into its cultural context, explaining what is has done for humanity, telling the story of its historical development, or pointing out the wealth of unsolved problems or even the existence of topics that do not make it into school textbooks leaves less time to prepare for the exam. So most of these things aren't discussed.”

“When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.”

Long Stills Night Literature Stars Dark Century Cold Dust Noses Stillness Ancestor Woe Pointing Cadence Cold Night

Book:The Call of the Wild and White Fang

Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang

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