Compass famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
-- Ada Cambridge -
No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
-- Alex Cox -
In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
-- Alexander Pope -
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
-- Anais Nin -
There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.
-- Ben Quayle -
Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.
-- Bolesław Prus -
If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you...
-- Carol Alt -
The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
-- Colley Cibber -
The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.
-- Dan Ariely -
We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs
-- Dean Cavanagh -
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
-- Edmund Waller -
I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
-- Eli Roth -
He that has patience may compass anything.
-- Francois Rabelais -
It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.
-- Gaelen Foley -
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.
-- Gideon Defoe -
Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
-- Giordano Bruno -
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
-- Henry Rollins -
...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.
-- Huston Smith -
No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment
-- Jack Kornfield -
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.
-- Jerzy Kosinski -
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
-- John Ruskin -
'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.
-- John Wilkins -
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
-- Joseph Cook -
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
-- Joseph Cook -
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 of compasses.
-- Julio Cortazar -
If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.
-- Kenneth Oppel -
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ...
-- Mabel Osgood Wright -
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.
-- Matt Taibbi -
Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.
-- Peter Senge -
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there
-- Seth Grahame-Smith -
Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow
-- Steve Pavlina -
Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.
-- Suzy Kassem -
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?
-- Sybille Bedford -
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
-- Tom Stoppard -
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
-- William Ellery Channing -
My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.
-- Jamel Shabazz -
Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
-- Charles Goodnight -
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.
-- David Berman -
I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.
-- Diane Wilson -
You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.
-- Simon Kinberg -
How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?
-- Toby Turner
