Compass Quotes

303 quotes by 264 authors

Conscience is a man's compass. — Vincent Van Gogh
My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.' — Dane Cook
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass. — Billy Corgan
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to… — Marlene Dietrich
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. — Heinrich Heine
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. — Brad Henry
We are asleep with compasses in our hands. — W S Merwin
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. — Michelangelo
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If… — Barack Obama
Your inner knowing is your only true compass. — Joy Page
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted… — Lou Reed
I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me. — Eli Roth
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. — Walter Scott
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and… — Hugh Sidey
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis… — Matt Taibbi
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. — Leonardo da Vinci
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. — Robert Charles Winthrop
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. — Khaled Hosseini
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we… — Tom Stoppard
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer… — Julio Cortazar

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