Bearings Quotes

38 quotes by 36 authors

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense… — George W. Bush
The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide us as stewards… — Pope Benedict XVI
No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat,… — Lefty Gomez
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. — Charles Dickens
We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my… — James Lovelock
You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ...… — John Barth
We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And… — M. L. Stedman
There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent… — Tim Winton
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world. — John Stott
How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we donâ€™t care;… — Pope Francis
The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members… — William Westney
I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a… — Karel Reisz
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after… — Mahatma Gandhi
Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only… — Mao Zedong
America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft… — Thomas McGuane
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew… — George Will
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. — John Updike

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