Quotes of: Focal-point Keyword

Desire creates a starting point. Without it, no magic can be put into action.

Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization

The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.

The Fire Chronicle

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry as Well for the Champion or Open Countrey, as Also for the Woodland or Several, Mixed in Every Moneth, with Hous

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested “in how they feel and in their point of view.

Between Parent and Child: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication

A blanket could be used to spot the blind. I’d spot Helen Keller nine points in a ten-point basketball game. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger; focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!

Achieve the Impossible - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Spiritual Business Management

Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

Along for the Ride

From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables.

Kobato, Volume 4

Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.

Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship and Direction

Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.

The Sherlockian

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Life, the Universe and Everything

Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter.

Last Words

Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. [...] Ronan was mine but he never belonged to me. This is not an issue of ownership. A child is not a couch.

The Still Point of the Turning World

I judged you unfairly when I met you.” “But you still wanted to kiss me?” He shrugged, a smirk turning up the right corner of his mouth. “I’m a guy.

This Point Forward

I'd like that translated if I may. British Prime Minster Harold Macmillan on Nikita Khruschev's shoe banging at the UN General Assembly on 29th September 1960

Pointing the Way: 1959-1961

There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.

Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Woman at Point Zero

Live it already, write about it from the point of view of already having it, and be so happy and grateful at its impending arrival.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

Ozwald Boateng

It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view - I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

Olly Murs