Quotes about Certain Point

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours. Votes: 1

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family. Votes: 1

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level. Votes: 1

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. Votes: 1

At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing. Votes: 1

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. Votes: 1

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle. Votes: 1

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. Votes: 1

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Votes: 1

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest. Votes: 1

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. Votes: 1

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more. Votes: 1

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless. Votes: 1

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration. Votes: 1

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. Votes: 1

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less. Votes: 1

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day. Votes: 1

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often. Votes: 1

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been. Votes: 1

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one. Votes: 1

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation. Votes: 1

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times. Votes: 1

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Votes: 1

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it. Votes: 1

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. Votes: 1

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet. Votes: 1

Also, at a certain point relentlessness itself can become comedic. Votes: 0

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point. Votes: 0

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Votes: 0

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things. Votes: 0

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes. Votes: 0

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny. Votes: 0

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. Votes: 0

At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both. Votes: 0

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is. Votes: 0

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. Votes: 0

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. Votes: 0

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. Votes: 0

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. Votes: 0

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them. Votes: 0

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human. Votes: 0

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside. Votes: 0

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. Votes: 0

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis. Votes: 0

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting. Votes: 0

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them. Votes: 0

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great. Votes: 0

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. Votes: 0

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive. Votes: 0

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose. Votes: 0

You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way. Votes: 0

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken. Votes: 0

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. Votes: 0

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. Votes: 0

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate. Votes: 0

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point. Votes: 0

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness. Votes: 0

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. Votes: 0

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life's many losses buried in those sands. Votes: 0

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving. Votes: 0

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. Votes: 0

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference. Votes: 0

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth. Votes: 0

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change. Votes: 0

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point. Votes: 0

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. Votes: 0

...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action. Votes: 0

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me. Votes: 0

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right. Votes: 0

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are. Votes: 0

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. Votes: 0

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point. Votes: 0

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. Votes: 0

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank. Votes: 0

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting. Votes: 0

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. Votes: 0

...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it. Votes: 0

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. Votes: 0

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down. Votes: 0

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. Votes: 0

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking. Votes: 0

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there Votes: 0

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. Votes: 0

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it. Votes: 0

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you. Votes: 0

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. Votes: 0

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way. Votes: 0

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd. Votes: 0

It might be true that it is quality time that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. Votes: 0

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves. Votes: 0

At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground. Votes: 0

It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point. Votes: 0

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. Votes: 0

When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant. Votes: 0

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in. Votes: 0

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view. Votes: 0

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy. Votes: 0

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment. Votes: 0

All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles. Votes: 0

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it. Votes: 0

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with. Votes: 0

There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. Votes: 0

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them. Votes: 0

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return Votes: 0

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist. Votes: 0

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items. Votes: 0

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers." Votes: 0

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment. Votes: 0

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. Votes: 0

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. Votes: 0

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied. Votes: 0

My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties. Votes: 0

At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate. Votes: 0

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point. Votes: 0

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too. Votes: 0

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was. Votes: 0

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don't belong to you anymore; they belong to the world. Votes: 0

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be? Votes: 0

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot. Votes: 0

They say there's a certain point where your rage plateaus and you can't get any angrier instead everything inside goes cold that you feel very very calm. Votes: 0

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot. Votes: 0

At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible. Votes: 0

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening [to men] without snickering. Votes: 0

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you. Votes: 0

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality. Votes: 0

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive. Votes: 0

When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them. Votes: 0

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it. Votes: 0

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love. Votes: 0

I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated. Votes: 0

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review. Votes: 0

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future. Votes: 0

I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes. Votes: 0

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous. Votes: 0

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic. Votes: 0

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates. Votes: 0

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children. Votes: 0

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things. Votes: 0

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did. Votes: 0

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to. Votes: 0

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer. Votes: 0

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny. Votes: 0

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it. Votes: 0

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. Votes: 0

Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say? Votes: 0

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear. Votes: 0

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older. Votes: 0

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way. Votes: 0

At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled. Votes: 0

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted. Votes: 0

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.' Votes: 0

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult. Votes: 0

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life. Votes: 0

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another. Votes: 0

Why not directing? There's no big mystery about it. It's – well, it's just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste. Votes: 0

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it. Votes: 0

You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left! Votes: 0

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point. Votes: 0

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin. Votes: 0

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle. Votes: 0

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence. Votes: 0

At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally. Votes: 0

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen. Votes: 0

I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate]. Votes: 0

The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty. Votes: 0

At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone. Votes: 0

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime. Votes: 0

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before! Votes: 0

If you have a certain point of view and reasons that you think are valid, then whether it's pro or anti, you can only and should only express those views you honestly hold. Votes: 0

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth. Votes: 0

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself. Votes: 0

When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird. Votes: 0

I don't think I"m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well. Votes: 0

But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment. Votes: 0

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money. Votes: 0

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know. Votes: 0

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies. Votes: 0

Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually. Votes: 0

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. Votes: 0

You get to a certain point, especially if you're a comedian, where people think certain things. It's like, I don't take the time to explain it to people, it's just part of what I do. Votes: 0

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point. Votes: 0

The whole theory of what Satan is, it's Lucifer, the highest of the seraphim, the bearer of God's light, who at a certain point comes to believe he is what is being revealed to him. Votes: 0

Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point. Votes: 0

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead. Votes: 0

Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life. Votes: 0

At a certain point in one's career, it's really wonderful when your child turns around and goes, 'Oh my God, Mommy, you have to be in that film. My friends are going to die.' Votes: 0

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air. Votes: 0

Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually. Votes: 0