Belabour The Point Quotes & Sayings

If
you are nice, but you give of yourself with strings attached, the
demand for reciprocity will send him several steps backward. — Sherry Argov

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with. — Glenn Frey

And you, Sarah Jacobi" - he pointed to a woman with white robes and spiky black hair - "you were sent to Antarctica for causing the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. — Rick Riordan

Value's in what people think. Not in what's real. Value's in dreams, boy. — Neil Gaiman

In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student, "Do you think I could be a writer?" "'Well,' the writer said, 'do you like sentences?'" The student is surprised by the question, but Dillard knows exactly what was meant. He was being told, she explains, that "if he likes sentences he could begin," and she remembers a similar conversation with a painter friend. "I asked him how he came to be a painter. He said, 'I like the smell of paint.'" The point, made implicitly (Dillard does not belabour it), is that you don't begin with a grand conception, either of the great American novel or masterpiece that will hang in the Louvre. You begin with a feel for the nitty-gritty material of the medium, paint in one case, sentences in the other. — Stanley Fish

Father-Mother is the name for Deity ... — Mary Baker Eddy

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it. — J. Michael Straczynski

People who hate are boring. Love is where excitement lives. — Ragdoll Bones

One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person's job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else's job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness. — Robert Holden

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not. — Christopher Atkins

The poor are more isolated - economically, culturally, and socially - than they used to be in America. — Yuval Levin