Compass Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image “In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compass Ends Inspirational Love Regard Writing
“In ev'ry work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I feel so lucky at being able to do what I love. Writing has proved to be a fascinating journey – without maps and… — Elizabeth Buchan Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.” — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
“We’re striking out mostly blind, using a compass and a series of old sketches that have been passed back” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.” — Shreya Gupta Copy Share Image
“Writing gives you a reach to the stars, That reach means there is NO CEILING!!!!!!!!” — Maija Monreaux Copy Share Image
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.” — Robynn Tolbert Copy Share Image
“A writer's will is the winds of dead calm in the Western Lands. Point way out he can start stirring of the sail. Writer,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“[N]o such thing as objective writing, . . . every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint. — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence. — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. — Brad Henry Copy Share Image
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
