Compass Quotes

303 quotes by 264 authors

Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by… — Louis Aragon
A little instruction in the elements of chartographyâ€”a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the… — Mary Antin
America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points… — Sam Watkins
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to… — Steven Pressfield
The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a… — Bill Bradley
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say,… — Robert Fisk
But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the… — Dave Barry
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass. — John Ruskin
The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best.… — Carl Safina
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. — James Agee
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to… — Moby
The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his… — Samuel Pisar
There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat… — Harvey Ball
I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way. — Adam Braun
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt. — Aaron Sorkin
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown. — Joseph Cook
The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the… — Tom DeLonge
Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia,… — Diego Della Valle
Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. — Stephen Covey

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