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“But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the powerful. I'm sort of a soft-core libertarian in that my compass is generally pointing away from 'Let's let the government do this' Does it matter to me that it's Democrats who think we need more elaborate programs that involve shifting money from one group to another group or it's Republicans saying we need to take a harder look at what kinds of things people are watching on cable TV? Neither one of those things strikes me as a good idea.”

“Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear every day of my life and the fact that I'm painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It's become a meme, I guess. Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I'll look like a douchebag. But it's silly.”

People Ifs Want Believe Looks Littles Stills I Can Facts Talking Walking Negative Mad Photograph Silly Annoying Worn Pointing Up To You Underwear It Is What It Is Memes Exhibitionist Douchebags

Author:Jon Hamm

“Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .”

Moving Law Leadership Tradition Bounds Crowds Setting Ships Settings Employee Pace Regulation Pointing Hierarchy Precedent

Book:THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG

Source: THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG

“None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak. What each of us does need is family, friends, employers, and brothers and sisters who support us, who have the patience to teach us, who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can, in spite of our weaknesses. What ever happened to giving each other the benefit of the doubt? What ever happened to hoping that another person would succeed or achieve? What ever happened to rooting for each other?”

“In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Reality Law Natural Universal Assuming Pointing Natural Law

Book:Cosmic Superimposition: Man's Orgonotic Roots in Nature

Source: Cosmic Superimposition: Man's Orgonotic Roots in Nature

“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.”

“As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.”

Persons Choices Worst Information Pointing Our Choices

Author:Bill Crawford

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

Past Our Past Pointing Your Past Quoting

Author:Robert Plant

“Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization, and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature. To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.”

Men World Way Art Reality Artist Given Records Duty Civilization Art Is Perfection Thirds Accounts Privilege Reality Of Life Principal Pointing Better Life Craving

Author:Paul Outerbridge

“In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.”

Has Beens Made Term Simple West South East Practicals Pointing Could Have Been Chariots

Author:Kit Williams

“And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.”

World Done Whole Individual Goal Deals Achievement Setting Settings Prize Pointing Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:Willard Libby

“If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.”

Ifs World Needs Trying Country America Hurt Relation Fingers Thrive Collaboration Consistency It Hurts Pointing Pointing Fingers Best Country

Author:Jamie Dimon

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

People Want Use Computer Evidence Devices Mice Pointing Computing Macintosh Macintosh Computers

Author:John C. Dvorak

“The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.”

Source: The World of Mathematics

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

Lying Sky London Lifts Deceit Tall Bully Pointing Columns

Book:The poems of Alexander Pope

Source: The poems of Alexander Pope

“Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.”

Book Students College Citizenship Preparing Pointing Underachieving

Author:George Leef

“Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.”

Years Three Gone Crisis Forgiving Financial Executives Jail Fraud Three Years Pointing Forgive Me Horrific Financial Crisis

Author:Charles Ferguson

“After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.”

“The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.”

Two Force Elements Female Unions Males Active Symbols Passive Pointing Corresponding Triangles

Author:Albert Mackey

“I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall. I am merely pointing out that they can, and are, used to promote the New World Order, mostly (though certainly not in every case), without their knowledge.”

World Done Earth Used Order Cases Movement Stress Environmental New World Good Work Pointing Attacking New World Order World Order Greenpeace

Book:--and the Truth Shall Set You Free

Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free

“What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.”

Men Eye Christian Evil Deeds Wicked Good Life Apathy Pointing Malice Condemning Wicked Man

Book:The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)

Source: The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)

“The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me to the railway station?" asks the stranger. "Certainly," says the local, pointing in the opposite direction, towards the post office, "and would you post this letter for me on your way?" "Certainly," says the stranger, resolving to open it to see if it contains anything worth stealing.”

Source: All you can eat: greed, lust, and the new capitalism

“Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape can often be discerned by following the path projected by a pointing finger. "Them that have ears, let them hear," said Jesus; whoever "hears" the inner import of words will be able to "see" their inward meaning.”

Said Able Jesus Situation Path Words Of Wisdom Ears Fingers Following Landscape Features Inward Pointing Confined Often Is Imports Pointing Fingers

Author:Robert Svoboda

“I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.”

Attitude Sun Magic Effects Arms Mass Wave Noble Pointing

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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

I Can Mother Type Faster Pointing

Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.”

Body Religious Information Blame Fingers Pointing Hierarchy Sects Cathedrals Pointing Fingers Bazaars

Author:Mary Douglas

“If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don’t even know the half of it.'”

Ifs Knows Kind Walks Half Devil All Kinds Pointing

Author:Paul Washer

“I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Political Literature Missing Tradition Active Pointing American Tradition Apolitical

Author:Diane Wakoski

“The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!”

Children Shows Subjects Gestures Pointing Haiku Partiality

Author:Roland Barthes

“You may be asking yourself, 'Am I the right type of person to go to this rally?' The fact that you would even stop to ask yourself that question, as opposed to, let's say, just jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strapping on a diaper and pointing your car towards D.C. -- that means I think you just might be right for it.”

Thinking May Mean Persons Book Facts Might Asks Car Type Holy Asking Jumping Pointing Diapers Grabbing Holy Books Might Is Right

Author:Jon Stewart

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

Problem Leader Ignorance Weakness Courageous No Problem Pointing

Author:Thom S. Rainer

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

Needs Grows Enemy Areas Pointing Compass

Author:Steve Pavlina

“I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.”

Knows Different Wind Fool Flags Pointing Rugby Different Directions

Author:Mike Watkins

“As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.”

Ifs Feels Mother Saws Sweet Approach Weakness Patience Dear Inevitable Hopeful Pointing Trembling Dissolution Hopeful Future

Author:T. E. Brown

“All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.”

“Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.”

“I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.”

I Can Science Hours Space Millions Sun Rocks Sitting Rate Miles Infinity Gravity Pointing Spinning

Book:So this is depravity

Source: So this is depravity

“David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk.”

Motivation Cameras Fighter Pointing Smirk

Author:Vitali Klitschko

“Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.”

Hands Clean Fingers Pointing Judging Others I'm Not Perfect Pointing Fingers Judging You Clean Hands I Am Not Perfect Five Fingers Judging Yourself

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.”

“A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.”

Believe Reality Spiritual Teaching Fingers Mature Pointing Pointing Fingers Spiritual Teaching

Author:Adyashanti

“Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives.”

Ifs Looks Might Our Lives Duty Blessing Activity Normal Tasks Filled Routine Sanity Pointing

Author:Priscilla Shirer

“My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.”

Found Significant Significance Pointing

Author:LeCrae

“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.”

Kind Matter Accepting Practice Familiar Assumption Pointing Critique

Book:Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984

Source: Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984

“Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.”

Way Use Dream Together Imagination Moral Empathy Blame Instinct Fingers Bounds Occasions Pointing Hopes And Dreams Pointing Fingers

Author:Barack Obama

“Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?”

People Way Doe Moments Feelings Joy Certain Rooms Figures Objects Feminist Surface Sexism Pointing Expressing Anger Killjoy

Book:The Promise of Happiness

Source: The Promise of Happiness

“Mothers Who Know Honor God They bring daughters in clean and ironed dresses with hair brushed to perfection; their sons wear white shirts and ties and have missionary haircuts. These mothers know they are going to sacrament meeting, where covenants are renewed. These mothers have made and honor temple covenants. They know that if they are not pointing their children to the temple, they are not pointing them toward desired eternal goals. These mothers have influence and power.”

“Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.”

Believe Faith Courses Wall Office Luck Don't Believe Pointing Horseshoes

Author:Niels Bohr

“A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power.”

Higher Ego Behavior Metaphor Oneself Pointing Higher Power

Author:Mason Jennings

“Even as they are now pointing to God and praising God for that victory, something terrible happens; there's a demonic spirit now that referees, and the officials, and they say Oh did you see that? He just referred to God. We need to stop that and we need to disqualify them! And they're punished for their righteousness by the demonic spirit that's inside the referees.”

Needs Happens Spirit Victory Terrible Praise Insane Officials Righteousness Pointing Demonic Referee Praise God

Author:Gordon Klingenschmitt

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