Guiding Quotes
270 Guiding quotes by 236 unique authors
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Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far…
— Joseph Fielding Smith
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the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,…
— Albert Einstein
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Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons…
— Sarah Vowell
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In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
— Ayn Rand
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many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader…
— Terry Goodkind
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I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see…
— Che Guevara
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Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given,…
— Mark Helprin
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I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something…
— Muriel Barbery
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we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the…
— Salman Rushdie
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First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand…
— Paulo Coelho
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solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that…
— Henri Nouwen
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Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and…
— Thomas Moore
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...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding…
— Rohinton Mistry
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But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment.…
— George Carlin
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Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I…
— Franz Kafka
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If we listen to and follow the promptings of the Spirit, they will serve as a Liahona, guiding us through the unknown, challenging valleys and…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of…
— Deborah Harkness
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The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and…
— John Green
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The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be…
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These Guiding Quotes
236 authors contributed a total of 270 Guiding Quotes, led by these top contributors: