Compass Quotes

303 quotes by 264 authors

The wisest men follow their own direction. — Euripides
All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what… — Barack Obama
put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there — Seth Grahame-Smith
It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves… — Geraldine McCaughrean
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a… — Aldous Huxley
No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California. — Janet Fitch
â€¦Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… — Michael Ondaatje
But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since… — Alexander Pope
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.… — John Donne
Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. — Rebecca Solnit
That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have… — Gideon Defoe
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Iâ€™m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I canâ€™t really understand what it… — Haruki Murakami
a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have… — Jodi Picoult
What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf. — Ilona Andrews
I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a… — Janet Fitch
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that… — Daisaku Ikeda
This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have… — Edward Kennedy
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that… — Victor Hugo

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