No Point Quotes - Page 16

• There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

  J. G. Holland

  Art, Form

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• My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Talent, Delusion, Ifs

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Let's face it, there's no point in running away. I will find that person myself and I will change Saet Byul's fate

  Kim Soo-hyun

  Running, Fate, Faces

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• I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

  Stephen Rea

  Teenager, Cinema, Saws

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• It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

  George MacDonald

  War, Men, Past

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• The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

  Tony Buzan

  Children, Self, Skills

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• No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

  George Mason

  Men, Justice, Should

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• There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

  Milton Friedman

  Operating Systems, Compare, Ideals

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

  Richard Branson

  Regret, Mistake, Embrace

  "The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

  Judith Martin

  People, Mind, Insult

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• I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

  Stephen Fry

  Lazy, Way, Wasting Time

  "Big Think Interview With Stephen Fry". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Mean, Novelists, Doe

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

  Jim DeMint

  Block, Men, Civilization

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• There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

  Anthony Edwards

  Baby, Children, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Site

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• I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Giving, Secret, Want

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• Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Views, Opposites

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• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  Victoria Beckham

  Children, Husband, Freak

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.

  Willow Smith

  Fun, Trying, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.

  Simone Weil

  Girl, Spiritual, Eye

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil. Translated by R. Rees, "Morality and literature," p. 164, 1968.

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• Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm.

  Harlan Tarbell

  Hands, Doe, Arms

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• Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced

  Robert Burns

  Mean, Term, Happens

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• Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Two, Mind

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• Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

  Larry Niven

  Giving Up, Giving, Sometimes

  "The Ringworld Engineers". Book by Larry Niven, 1980.

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