Quotes of: Focal-point Keyword

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

W. H. Auden

And maps can really point to places Where life is evil now: Nanking. Dachau.

W.H. Auden

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

Adora Svitak

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

Monica Lewinsky

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

Maisie Williams

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

Robert Sean Leonard

When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back. It's a lot of work and sacrifice.

Robert Maillet

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Candice Bergen

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Holly Near

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Tom Colicchio

Dissociation from the body and emotions – numbness – is a basic requirement of the male ideal. Hardy and Hough point out that the patriarchal culture’s influence is so strong on this point that it interferes with men ever recognizing that pain ...

Codependency & Men

F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is th...

Eating the Dinosaur

Thankfully, Coach had taught me a way of embracing the pain. He called that overwhelming rust of hurt 'The Moment of No Return', a point of pure agony when the body told an athlete to quit, to rest, because the pain was so damn tough. It was a tippin...

Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography

There is a difference between what I actually want and what I want to have fantasies about. (...) There is a part of my imagination which is a playground, a playground in which I am queen. It fulfils my need to have a fantasy land, and that need may ...

Falling For Therapy: Psychotherapy From A Client's Point Of View

[...] it would be false to say that because we're on the side of justice, we can go ahead and destroy our opponents and the world will be at peace. [...] Now, I know that there are such things as good and evil in the world, and that people do good th...

Starting Point: 1979-1996

In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel...

A Son of the Circus

I want to go much further than that. I want to point out that when Jesus spoke, whether it be of blessing or wealth or prosperity or what-have-you, He was rarely speaking of what is physical, what is tangible, what is seen. I don’t think Jesus was ...

Money: I Think We've Missed The Point

The rest of the year, I wondered if the point of Christmas was just spending money and getting fat and opening gifts. Indulging. But when Christmas finally comes, and that warm, tingly, mints-and-sweaters-and-fireplace-fires feeling gathers in the bo...

Made You Up

Tucked inside the moments of this great sadness - this feeling of being punctured, scrambling and stricken - were also moments of the brightest, most swollen and logic shattering happiness I've ever experienced. One moment would be a wall of happines...

The Still Point of the Turning World

Uncoupling is primarily a tale of two transitions: one that begins before the other. Most often, one person wants out while the other person wants the relationship to continue. Although both partners must go through all the same stages of the transit...

Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships

It was very still. The tree was tall and straggling. It had thrown its briers over a hawthorn-bush, and its long streamers trailed thick, right down to the grass, splashing the darkness everywhere with great spilt stars, pure white. In bosses of ivor...

Sons and Lovers