Compass Points Sayings

#1. 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

#2. When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

Robert Fisk

#3. Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

H. Richard Niebuhr

#4. A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this way, you can be sure your moral compass always points North.

Jason W. Blair

#5. Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

John D. Voelker

#6. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

Tom Stoppard

#7. There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

Ted Koppel

#8. I do not fear being hurt, nor am I ever sorry should such pain take hold of me. My real fear would be to never know the the joy of loving someone so deeply as to be that vulnerable ...

Tonny K. Brown

#9. You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.

Kathe Koja

#10. America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

Sam Watkins

#11. The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

Laurence Olivier

#12. It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life, not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#13. The pattern of our lives is essentially circular. We must be open to all points of the compass; husband, children, friends, home, community; stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider's web to each breeze that blows, to each call that comes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#14. She's the sunrise, the moonrise, all four points of my compass.

Karina Halle

#15. 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.

James Lileks

#16. My moral compass doesn't point north. It points to safety.

Jamie Farrell

#17. His warrior's eyes met hers. "You're the reason. My compass home points toward you.

Natasza Waters

#18. The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

Romain Rolland

#19. Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

Stephen Graham

#20. There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robert Charles Winthrop

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

Henry David Thoreau

#22. Every person, I have come to believe, has a moment or a place in life when all four points of the compass converge, from when or where their life finally takes--for better or for worse--its fated course.

Peter Geye

#23. Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Thomas Carlyle

#24. All because I fell in love with a madman.

Carrie Butler

#25. See this ring? It means I belong to him. And the tattoo of my name on his arm means he belongs to me. All of him. His dick is a compass, and I'm due north- it only points to me.

Emma Chase

#26. The heart is a compass. It points you to the thing you love the most.

Holly Schindler

#27. I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

Dan Brown

#28. No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Myrtle Reed

#29. Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Khaled Hosseini

#30. We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

H. Bentley Glass

#31. A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north ... We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course.

Billy Graham

#32. The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

Rudolf Arnheim