I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.
United need to start garnishing some points.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never enough of you all together in one place, so t here wouldn't be anything left that would think of itself as an 'I. ' No point of view any longer, because you'd be an infinite sequence of views and of points.
I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buybinge and then beat myself up over my behavior.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
The best path between two points is upside-down, between, then inside-out and round again.
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
Whenever you make a big effort and take risks, getting good results and points is very rewarding.
After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.