Lost Compass Quotes

#1. I think of my second lost compass sinking to the bottom of the river, like the stone it was before Ky changed it.

Ally Condie

#2. Fine, a Lithuanian couple gets lost because, like men across the globe, he values his penis - among other things - as a compass. So he's incapable of asking for directions and thereby disparaging the power of his penis.

Nora Roberts

#3. Why a compass?" Ty asked. He hadn't taken his eyes off Zane's yet.
Zane smiled and ran his thumb across the pendant. "Because you gave me direction when I was lost. You showed me the way." He looked up to meet Ty's eyes. "You're like my very own compass.

Abigail Roux

#4. After an hour the score was:
Quancita - 34
Radiz - 51
Sally - froglegs
Perla - 9 and 21
Me - hoo-hoo-hooo

Joel N. Ross

#5. She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.

Mark Haddon

#6. I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.

John Burnside

#7. I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

Billy Corgan

#8. It was going to be our job to annoy someone?"
"I know - it's a dream come true!

Joel N. Ross

#9. Are you okay?"
"Yeah."
"Good," she said, "because if you fall off a skyscraper, I'll be so mad at you.

Joel N. Ross

#10. What are you doing?" I asked Loretta.
"Stabbing a cushion," she told me.

Joel N. Ross

#11. Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

Suzy Kassem

#12. While like most men, Sam prided himself on being equipped with a supernatural internal compass that kept him from ever being lost, he'd also learned to concede those rare times when that compass seemed to be temporary disrepair.

Clive Cussler

#13. Somehow she lost her compass. Her engine failed. Her gyroscope broke. She's ... lost. She says the road she was on isn't there any more and she doesn't know where to walk now.

Brian Doyle

#14. He was like my compass everytime I found myself lost, because of the cruelty of the world around me.

Teresa May B. Bandiola

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

William Cowper

#16. William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.

James Tate

#17. I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.

Tom DeLay

#18. ...Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...

Joel N. Ross

#19. Why would they follow me?" I asked Swedish. "It doesn't make sense."
"They're made of trash and Fog," he said. "You think they make sense?

Joel N. Ross

#20. Keep moving!"
"Bea's arguing with the floor.

Joel N. Ross

#21. Why is it that we don't worry about a compass until we're lost in a wilderness of our own making?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. My
emotional compass had vanished. I lost all sense of
direction, of time, of the sense of who I was. I don't know
when it began, or when it ended, but before I knew it I was
locked away, alone and numb in the endless winter of that
world of ice.

Haruki Murakami

#23. Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !

Joel N. Ross

#24. If Chess is the switch," Loretta said, "how does he turn the Fog off?"

Bea bit her lower lip. "I don't know - ask Chess."
"How would I know?" I said. "You try being a switch.

Joel N. Ross

#25. 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

#26. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?

Haruki Murakami

#27. You told me one time that ... I was your compass. I gave you direction when you were lost," Ty said, nearly choking on the words. He glanced up, eyes reflecting like liquid in the low light. "Well, you were my anchor. You were something solid for me to hold onto. I wanted you to remember that.

Abigail Roux

#28. It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings.
Alan Bishop

Arthur C. Clarke

#29. The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.

Kofi Annan

#30. Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And I'm apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I'm lost.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. Wait a second," I said. "Did we just win?

Joel N. Ross

#32. We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

Sharon Gannon

#33. Happiness is the compass of human soul. If we feel nothing, it means we are lost.

Abram Gitspof

#34. Love is the compass which keeps every other value from becoming lost.

Bryant McGill

#35. You know what to do?"
"Wander around," I said. "Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.

Joel N. Ross

#36. The whole city was a compass. How could anyone ever have gotten so hopelessly lost here?

James Sallis

#37. 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

#38. Did you just call me 'sweetie'?" I asked.
She shoved my shoulder. "No.

Joel N. Ross

#39. Because you gave me direction when I was lost. You showed me the way." He looked up to meet Ty's eyes. "You're like my very own compass." "Zane.

Abigail Roux

#40. Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Geoff Mulgan

#41. 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

#42. Now?" I asked. "Like, now now?"
"What other kind of now is there?" Loretta asked.

Joel N. Ross

#43. Well, the bad news," Swedish said from the wheel, "is that Chess still thinks he's funny."
"What's the good news?" Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. "That Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?

Joel N. Ross

#44. Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?"
"I don't even know what language that is.

Joel N. Ross

#45. They'd lost their way, and lost their compass, but not their belief that it was possible to get back - even if neither knew exactly what happiness she was referring to. The

Jonathan Safran Foer

#46. We're alive!" Swedish told her. "I did not see that coming.

Joel N. Ross

#47. I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Andrew Fastow

#48. Now you're listening to Swedish ?" I asked her. "He thinks I'm the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!

Joel N. Ross

#49. Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#50. Bearings

You are my dear compass,
who knows no way but true,
so when I'm lost and drifting,
I find myself in you.

Yet when I ask you, fearful,
if I should set you free,
imagine my surprise to hear
you take your north from me.

Louise Hawes

#51. Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf