Go Astray Quotes

#1. When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

Cicely Tyson

#2. When our thoughts are born,
Though they be good and humble, one should mind
How they are reared, or some will go astray
And shame their mother.

Jean Ingelow

#3. Seeking you go astray seeking you go in dreams seeking you go somewhere else and truth is here. Seeking, you go then; and truth is NOW

Rajneesh

#4. We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

Seneca The Younger

#5. 7 Not those upon whom wrath is brought down, nor those who go astray.a 7a. The Muslims are warned here that even after receiving

Anonymous

#6. If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Dante Alighieri

#7. Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

Georg Ebers

#8. Of course I shall go astray often ... for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#9. The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Sophocles

#10. Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.

Saint Francis De Sales

#11. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Anonymous

#12. Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Thomas E. Mann

#13. Even the good plans of wise wizards like Gandalf and of good friends like Elrond go astray sometimes when you are off on dangerous adventures over the Edge of the Wild, and Gandalf was a wise enough wizard to know it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

William Osler

#15. it is a great mercy to be reclaimed and called home when we go astray, though it be by a tempest.

Matthew Henry

#16. Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, "You shot the ambassador?"
"You gave me the gun," protested Sounis.
"I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it!" Eugenides told him.
"Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray," murmured the magus.
"You shut up!" said Gen, laughing.

Megan Whalen Turner

#17. Nissa, you have a kind and bold heart, Follow it, and you will never go astray.

Brittany Oldroyd

#18. Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

Laozi

#19. The reason why many ministers go astray is that they underestimate what they were called to do

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply one thing has to be remembered: do whatsoever you like, but do it with full consciousness, and then you will not go astray.

Rajneesh

#21. We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#22. Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#23. Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Charles Baudelaire

#24. Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Jack London

#25. Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray!

Lindiwe Mabuza

#26. I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.

Alexander Spotswood

#27. Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.

Mohammed Omar

#28. Begin all over again? It would be no good. It would all turn out the same - all happen again just as it has happened. For certain people are For certain people are bound to go astray because for them no such thing as a right way exists.

Thomas Mann

#29. The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

William Makepeace Thackeray

#30. Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?

Michael Faraday

#31. One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.

William Mapother

#32. ...there is a predator-like mental scan that black women have to do before speaking, and even after we've done risk assessment, things can still go astray.

Phoebe Robinson

#33. He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.

Laozi

#34. This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray."
"Go astray?"
"Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure.

Rick Riordan

#35. The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Georges Bataille

#36. While anyone whom God lets go astray will have no guide. No one can mislead anyone whom God guides.
Quran- Az-Zumar(36-37)

Anonymous

#37. How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

Chris Robinson

#38. Children ... will never go astray while they are in good company.

Francis M. Lyman

#39. Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#40. The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power ... Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army ... The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#41. From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.

Blaise Pascal

#42. The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe in which keys never go astray.

Alain De Botton

#43. A passion thwarted will often go astray.

Garth Nix

#44. His son had gone astray in the great city, where so many others had gone astray before him, and where many others would go astray after him, until there was found some great secret that as yet no man had discovered.

Alan Paton

#45. We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

Hannes Alfven

#46. Commitment isn't about being perfect, always following through, or never going astray. Commitment means that when you (inevitably) stumble or get off track, you pick yourself up, find your bearings, and carry on in the direction you want to go.

Russ Harris

#47. When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

#48. Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up ...

Arthur Schopenhauer

#49. Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity.

Daniel Dennett

#50. If you follow the ways of the world, your heart will be drawn to its sensual defilements and easily led astray; if you go among people, your words will be guided by others' responses rather than come from the heart.

Yoshida Kenko

#51. If you're too afraid of going astray you won't go anywhere

Terry Pratchett