Orienting Quotes

#1. We had a motto in my school: 'Men for Others.' And it was there that my faith became something vital. My north star for orienting my life. And when I left high school, I knew that I wanted to battle for social justice.

Tim Kaine

#2. I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.

Paul Auster

#3. The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip ...

Timothy Leary

#4. Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

James K.A. Smith

#5. For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.

Edmund White

#6. It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not "trying to be a contemplative," or trying to be anything special, but simply orienting my life fully and completely towards what seems to be required of a man like me at a time like this.

Thomas Merton

#7. I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

Alissa Nutting

#8. I belong everywhere and nowhere, and I alone can save two worlds.

Jonathan Friesen

#9. Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#10. We have to establish time boundaries and learn how to say no.

Alexandra Stoddard

#11. When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

Frederick Lenz

#12. My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

Juliette Binoche

#13. We all have a set number of days to indent the world with our beliefs, to find and create the beauty that only a finite existence allows for, to wrestle with the question of purpose and wrestle with our answers.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

Anne McCaffrey

#15. Have you ever been with a man who d-did those things to you?" His voice had turned husky and dark. "Talked dirty to you? Spanked you? Tied you up and sspent hours figuring out how many ways he could make you c-come with his tongue?

Ruthie Knox

#16. Even with tortured minds and broken spirits, even bound to the Surface, they ached for God's presence. It would be like being drawn back into the womb. It would be rest. It was the only real redemption there was.

Vicki Pettersson

#17. Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

John Singleton

#18. My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

Charlie Chaplin

#19. History is the view from the cheap seats. Distance from the action provides a unique perspective; one can recognize the plays and appreciate the totality of certain events.

Debra Komar

#20. Nevada...a land that is geology by day and astronomy at night

Richard G. Lillard