Compass Quotes

303 quotes by 264 authors

If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful… — William Penn
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. — Lou Reed
Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. — William Cowper
Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north.… — William Stafford
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass. — John Fletcher
I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has… — Tom DeLay
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. — Wyndham Lewis
If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true… — Edward Kennedy
The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass. — Haddon W. Robinson
We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of… — Francis Collins
The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro… — Brigham Young
There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the scriptures only as… — Harold B. Lee
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. — Richard Steele
I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your… — Joe Bradley
Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our… — Elijah Cummings
If I wanted to be free, truly free, I had to choose. There were many points on the compass rose; I had to locate the… — Richard Bode
The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.It is the one true and perfect symbol… — Vera Nazarian
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The… — John Dryden
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that… — John Dryden
In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. — Alexander Pope

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