Compasses Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

• If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but… — John Donne
• Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we… — Thomas Harriot
• Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already… — Barack Obama
• It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence. — Gaelen Foley
• Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body,… — Andy Goldsworthy
• We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs — Dean Cavanagh
• When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And… — M. L. Stedman
• We are asleep with compasses in our hands. — W S Merwin
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. — Tom Stoppard
• Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story… — Rebecca Solnit
• One of my compasses as an actor is when I have the opportunity for a role, does it scare the shit out of me? — Matthew Bomer

Who Wrote These Compasses Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Compasses Quotes as follows:

• 2 Compasses Quotes by John Donne
• 1 Compasses Quote by Thomas Harriot
• 1 Compasses Quote by Barack Obama
• 1 Compasses Quote by Gaelen Foley
• 1 Compasses Quote by Andy Goldsworthy
• 1 Compasses Quote by Dean Cavanagh
• 1 Compasses Quote by M. L. Stedman
• 1 Compasses Quote by W S Merwin
• 1 Compasses Quote by Julio Cortazar
• 1 Compasses Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson
• 1 Compasses Quote by Tom Stoppard
• 1 Compasses Quote by Rebecca Solnit
• 1 Compasses Quote by Matthew Bomer