“ A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger. ”
- Tom Holt- Copy
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“ The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. ”
- Robert Blair- Copy
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“ Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written. ”
- Edward Carpenter- Copy
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“ In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. ”
- Meg Cabot- Copy
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“ All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand. ”
- Stephen McKenna- Copy
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“ But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed — a compass, not a weathercock. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as you. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Isn't Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear? ”
- Elizabeth Bowen- Copy
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“ Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ”
- Martin Tupper- Copy
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“ Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ I am not a teacher — only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as of you. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates… When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ In the jungle of the marketplace, the intelligent buyer must be alert to every commercial sound, to every snapping of a selling twig, to every rustle that may signal the uprising arm holding the knife pointed toward the jugular vein. ”
- Dexter Masters- Copy
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“ Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ Winston Churchill pointed out another attribute of good rhetoric: it is sincere. You must yourself really be against the Germans buzz-bombing London before you can persuade the English people it is a rotten notion. ”
- Kerry Thornley- Copy
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“ For the first, I designed a device we called the Sun Tracker. It automatically pointed to the sun while it was up every day and measured the attenuation of the sun's cm-wave radiation in the earth's atmosphere. ”
- Robert W. Wilson- Copy
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“ If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too. ". ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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