Compass Quotes

303 quotes by 264 authors

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in… — Cormac McCarthy
If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an'… — David Mitchell
Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love... — Jeff Buckley
Wild Nights â€“ Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile â€“ the winds â€“ To a heart in port… — Emily Dickinson
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that,… — Anita Shreve
Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. — Jerzy Kosinski
I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be… — Sylvia Plath
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've… — Nancy Werlin
You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but… — Jodi Picoult
She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing… — Stefan Zweig
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass… — Alan Paton
Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor. — Groucho Marx
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come. — William Shakespeare
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the… — Elif Safak
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that… — Victor Hugo
If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is… — Daniel Gilbert
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as… — Ellen DeGeneres
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. — Tom Stoppard

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