Top 34 Quotes About Compasses
#1. I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.
Tim Allen
#2. When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.
M.L. Stedman
#3. Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces ... Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.
Liane Moriarty
#4. Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.
Henry Blackaby
#5. The compasses are disappointingly true, pointing north over and over, when all he wants is for one to dissent, to demur, to show him the new direction he cannot find on his own.
Matt Bell
#6. Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.
Rebecca Solnit
#7. We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W.S. Merwin
#8. Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?
Rhian J. Martin
#9. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?
Herman Melville
#10. There are no compasses for journeying in time.
Graham Swift
#11. We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs
Dean Cavanagh
#12. Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#13. It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.
Gaelen Foley
#14. Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Jesse Lee Bennett
#15. Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
Albert Pike
#16. Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth.
Unknown
#17. I love hands like I love people. They are the maps and compasses with which we navigate our way through life, feeling our way over mountains passed and valleys crossed; they are our histories.
Sarah Kay
#18. I spend my night writing you love letters;The eraser
Then spend my day
Erasing each, word by word.
Your eyes are my golden compasses;
They point me toward the sea of separation!
(translated from the Arabic by Sivar Qazaz)
Ghada Samman
#19. Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#20. He shrugged happily. Let's make plaid, canvas and compasses my absolute trademarks. Dustin McHugh. All plaid. All canvas. All the time. And I'm never lost. What say you, dork judge?
Anne Eliot
#21. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
John Donne
#22. I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.
Julio Cortazar
#23. Too often we react emotionally, get despondent, and lose our perspective. All that does is turn bad things into really bad things. Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds
that sacred place of reason, action and will
and throw off our compasses.
Ryan Holiday
#24. People have interesting things to say and you're only going to learn from different people's experience and knowledge.
Ed Speleers
#25. Julian presented the food. A fillet of sea bass with perfect griddle marks and a scattering of fennel picked from a nearby hedgerow. There were caramelized carrots, baby la ratte potatoes and a garnish of roasted tomatoes that had made a brief appearance in a painting that afternoon.
Red Ochre Press
#26. Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.
Matthew Arnold
#28. The people I bring out of suspension to populate my town won't have Facebook or iPhones, iPads, Twitter, next-day delivery. They'll interact like our species used to. Face-to-face. And
Blake Crouch
#29. I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
Nicole Kidman
#30. So," Annabeth said, "are you going to argue about me coming along?"
"Nah. You'd just beat me up." Percy said.
She managed a laugh, which was good to hear
Rick Riordan
#31. If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given ... where are you going to live?
Karyn Calabrese
#32. Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.
Narendra Modi
#33. Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
Felicia Day
#34. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia
