Quotes of: Certain-point Keyword

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

James Dobson

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

Andy Garcia

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

Amber Heard

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

Youssou N'Dour

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Morris Raphael Cohen

What's the point of staying sober?

Oliver Reed

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

Dance Dance Dance

You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at will be our winner." "I've played that game once before. Ended up--" Paris shuddered. "Never mind. It's not good ...

The Darkest Passion

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired by either bees or Turks occurred wound up with mo...

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I be...

Michele Bachmann

The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the cam...

The Sadness of Antonioni

Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable f...

Letters of Asa Gray V2

Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that women must labour to be beautiful, but Reynolds--who used to be a passionate Yeats fan--is now of the opinion that Yeats is entitled to his point of view, but that was then and social attitudes were di...

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth InTough Economic Times

There is no neutral ground when it comes to the tolerance question. Everybody has a point of view she thinks is right, and everybody passes judgment at some point or another. The Christian gets pigeonholed as the judgmental one, but everyone else is ...

Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions

[...] students should be told that an effort is always required, when you start to read a serious author, to overcome mental laziness and reluctance, because you are about to enter the mind of someone who thinks differently from yourself. And that is...

The Pleasure of Reading

The five points of , together with the five points of , remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritua...

The Yoga Sutras

Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a mo...

Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions...

Studies in Classic American Literature