There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack Obama

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mohandas Gandhi

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy

You reach a point where you don't work for money.
Walt Disney

At one point he decided enough was enough.
Steven Wright

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Sun Tzu