Quotes About Astray

#1. And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone.

Max Barry

#2. 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

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

Georges Bataille

#4. I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?

Haruki Murakami

#5. Using your feminine wiles to lead my familiar astray. If all you want is dangerous sex, I can give that to you better than he can, and I won't break your heart afterward. - Al to Rachel

Kim Harrison

#6. 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

#7. I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ (2 Cor. 11:3). Sin is the move away from simple devotion to Christ. Sin is spiritual complexity.

Tony Reinke

#8. We've been led astray by rationalist thought," Diotallevi said. "I keep telling you.

Umberto Eco

#9. To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#10. They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

Rachel Cohn

#11. It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement is to lead men astray from the plainest paths of reason and conviction.

Alexander Hamilton

#12. In a world gone astray from God there is no peace, but it also lacks charity, which is true and perfect love ... Nothing is more beautiful than love. Indeed, faith and hope will end when we die, whereas love, that is, charity, will last for eternity.

Pier Giorgio Frassati

#13. But this is what leads the heretics astray: that they look upon nature and person as the same thing

John Damascene

#14. Anyone who doesn't respect a teacher or cherish a student may be clever, but has gone astray.

Lao-Tzu

#15. Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

Alfred Jodl

#16. Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.

Donald Griffin

#17. The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

Hank Johnson

#18. We're brought up with a kind of romanticism that's so false it leads us astray. Falling in love and marriage is forever. The movies, then TV told us that, even - especially - the commercials.

Eric Van Lustbader

#19. 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

#20. Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way.

Bell Hooks

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

Seneca The Younger

#22. Victoria was, at the time, far more empathetic and forgiving, chiding Albert for his narrow view of humanity. 'I always think that one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray.

Leslie Carroll

#23. Master, take me in along with these people." Jesus answered and said, "Your star has led you astray, Judas.

Rodolphe Kasser

#24. Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.

Leah Remini

#25. 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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Georg Ebers

#28. Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Denis Diderot

#29. The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.

George Washington

#30. Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

Andre Weil

#31. I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

LeAnn Rimes

#32. Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Christopher Hitchens

#33. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Aldous Huxley

#34. 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

#35. That's all I need," I say. "Well ... I need the lamp. And the astray. And the remote control. And the paddleball game. And you, Dean Holder. But that's all I need

Colleen Hoover

#36. Get off the negative treadmill It does not help you in any way It keeps your mind mired in the past and leads your heart astray

Donna T. Cavanagh

#37. 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

#38. I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

Flannery O'Connor

#39. We do know for sure that good Irish Catholics followed their faith in the direction of inclusion, compassion, equality, justice, and a host of other Catholic values when they voted with the majority despite some clergymen's efforts to lead them astray.

Mary E. Hunt

#40. I do think you have to change with the times in a way that renews your core essence, not abandons it. To change for the sake of change - without an anchor - that is mere faddishness. It will only lead you further astray.

Richard C. Morais

#41. It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Alexander Herzen

#42. Aye, aye! good-natured, jolly, full of fun; there are a number of other names for the good qualities the devil leaves his children, as bait to catch gudgeons with. D'ye think folk could be led astray by one who was every way bad?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#43. Sleep my baby, rock-a-bye,
On the edge you must not lie.
Wolf the Fluffy roams astray,
Will he grab you, drag away?
Into Furthest Darkest Woods,
Hide you under Willow roots?
There birdies chirp and squeak,
Will they let you fall asleep?

Stanislaw Sielicki

#44. I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth.
Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth.
It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play.
Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

Lauryn Hill

#45. There arose a riot among the Jews and Scribes and Pharisees, saying that the whole people was in danger of looking for Jesus as the Christ. So they assembled, and said to James, 'We beseech you to restrain the people, who are going astray after Jesus as though he were the Christ.

Robert H. Eisenman

#46. Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

John O. Brennan

#47. Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

Nancy Spain

#48. Searching for precious goods leads astray.

Laozi

#49. It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

Takuan Soho

#50. Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.

Laurence Bergreen

#51. Every way
Leads but astray,

Sophocles

#52. Every proposal to seek authorization elsewhere than in the gospel itself must lead us astray. The

Lesslie Newbigin

#53. And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.

George Orwell

#54. The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

Clarice Lispector

#55. The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

Aubrey De Grey

#56. 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

#57. I find nothing more frightening than a man trying to do what he has decided is important. Very little in the world has ever gone astray - at least on a grand scale - because a person decided to be frivolous

Brandon Sanderson

#58. 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

#59. Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way,
And wiser men than I went worse astray.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#60. 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

#61. If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the Christian Church as the one that claimed descent from that which he had established, so far had it gone astray.

Milton R. Hunter

#62. It's quite simple, just follow the dotted line," the Planmaker explained. "Don't let any bad idea lead you astray. Don't let them persuade you to take a short cut or take one yourself. Life is a winding path. One sometimes has to make detours. That's my humble opinion, anyway.

Walter Moers

#63. The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

Paul Krugman

#64. Lead me!" I told him fervently. "Astray is, like, my favourite place ever.

J.L. Merrow

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

Anonymous

#66. Never be led astray by those philosophic fools who preach up an impersonal God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#67. Noboby is succeeded by going astray from Allah

Salman Farooqi

#68. Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. You will not be led astray.

Rumi

#69. Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Oscar Wilde

#70. If a superior man undertakes something and tried to lead,
He goes astray.
But if he follows, he finds guidance.
It is favourable to find friends in the West and South,
and quiet perseverance brings good fortune.

Pearl S. Buck

#71. Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way.
We mortals are composed of two great schools
Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

Al-Ma'arri

#72. I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Gustave Moreau

#73. Passion without focus can lead you astray.

Ken Auletta

#74. I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it.

Rush Limbaugh

#75. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Rumi

#76. General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.

Toussaint Louverture

#77. It's the beginning of wisdom when you admit you've gone astray.

John Brunner

#78. Follow wherever the data leads you. Let the zillions help you rest more easily. Numbers don't lie. And they won't lead you astray. Instead, they'll help you find your way home.

Stan Humphries

#79. The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so in the present day.

Anonymous

#80. Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

Robert Burns

#81. It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right

Abigail Reynolds

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

#83. Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

Louis De Montfort

#84. There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I must do, not knowing my own mind, and I am led astray.

Haruki Murakami

#85. Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

Frank Herbert

#86. To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

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

Terry Pratchett

#88. Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else shaytan will lead your heart and mind astray.

Omar Suleiman

#89. Why was I led astray by a tiger brightness? Why did a false sun lure me so far from home? ... my eyes had looked at something forbidden and seen what they should never have seen, and now sight itself had gone out of them ... never again would I see the blinding glare of enemy eyes.

Anna Kavan

#90. Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Jean Rostand

#91. May the roads we travel never lead us astray, but if by chance we lose our way, may the echoes of laughter guide us back home some day.

Pamela Sparkman

#92. One belief is that it is easier to die, than to live. I'd rather make friends with Death, as a means to learn a few truths, than to allow life to lead me blindly astray within its subjective views and enraptured sciolism.

Lionel Suggs

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#94. 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

#95. Feelings can lead you astray. We may "feel" neglected or rejected, but we must ask God to help us be objective. He is always receptive and we are always A-Accepted.

Kolleen Lucariello

#96. From my heart comes out and dances the image of my own desire. The gleaming vision flits on. I try to clasp it firmly, it eludes me and leads me astray. I seek what I cannot get, I get what I do not seek.

Rabindranath Tagore

#97. Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

George Eliot

#98. Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.

V V Brown

#99. 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

#100. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde