Compass Quotes

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

I have an excellent internal compass.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

Democracy needs a moral compass.

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 you always wind up where you started.

Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

Your gut is your inner compass.

I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she really unfortunately would take her work home with her sometimes.

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

If it's January, I'm dead in three hours. But in June, I'd be hungry, but I'd make it out. I'd find my way without a map or compass. I say that with confidence. I can build a fire without a match.

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

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 ends may be very unlawfully attained.

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.

You govern people, you do good and bad things.If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

You will find the path of life when your inner compass is ready.

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!

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Are you okay?” “Yeah.” “Good, ” she said, “because if you fall off a skyscraper, I’ll be so mad at you.