
Top 22 Compass Point Sayings
#1. But all this happened for one basic reason: no matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.
Paulo Coelho
#2. 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 skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.
Joe Bradley
#3. Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like one can be taught to use a spoon, a knife, a fork, but even without these skills a man will still eat. The need is with us.
Lee Thomas
#4. He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.
David Levithan
#5. 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
#6. The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
Gertrude Atherton
#7. Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms
Daniel Boone
#8. Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.
"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.
Libba Bray
#9. I always love that 'we' part from a staff officer.
Eric Haney
#10. History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.
John Henrik Clarke
#11. My moral compass doesn't point north. It points to safety.
Jamie Farrell
#12. By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
Dorothea Brande
#13. I couldn't be playing him for this long if I didn't like him.
Michael Shanks
#14. News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.
Benjamin Disraeli
#15. My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
Jack Wagner
#16. You're my true north. No compass would point me in any other direction but to you.
Kristen Hope Mazzola
#17. When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.
Ari Graynor
#18. I looked up from that churning amphitheater to the view beyond it.
The great, gray eye of the sky looked back at me, its mist-shrouded sun focusing
all the white and silent distances that poured from every point of the compass, hill after pale hill, to stall at my feet.
Sylvia Plath
#19. A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.
Idowu Koyenikan
#20. People see what they expect. Their minds are conditioned to smooth away the impossible until it's transformed to the probable. Seeing the truth requires patience and attention, and seeing the truth of a person is even harder.
Anonymous
#21. She was my compass. I was her legend. We were the rivers and the lakes, the highways and the back roads, the mountains and the borders. I finally knew where I was. Charlotte was my You Are Here point on the map of life.
Julia Kent
#22. If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.
John Wooden
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