Quotes About Pointing North

#1. I think that maps showing platform details would be useful to visitors, especially to chaperones of school groups, etc. Also useful would be either a compass rose or an arrow pointing North at every metro exit. Emerging from underground is disorienting, especially at night.

Robert James Thomson

#2. America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#3. 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

#4. It is one thing to insist on walking south when the compass is pointing north. But to "fix" the compass so that it tells you that the wrong way is the right way is far, far worse. You can correct a mistake. But once you tell yourself it wasn't a mistake there's no way back.

N. T. Wright

#5. If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.

George Polya

#6. I understand that we see the world differently and neither is wrong.

Krista Ritchie

#7. There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.

David Hewson

#8. I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

Liz Phair

#9. By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.

Saul David

#10. If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#11. As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.

Tommy Shaw

#12. What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

Liya Kebede

#13. In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

Kit Williams

#14. Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

Carol Gilligan

#15. Stored procedures can offer huge performance advantages for huge architectural costs. You may avoid streaming thousands of rows to a client application, but you have also bound your application code to this database. The decision to use stored procedures should not be arrived at lightly.

Eric Redmond

#16. All the cells in my body rearrange, compass needles pointing to his north.

Sarah McCarry

#17. I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

Lana Del Rey

#18. Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.

Sunil Bharti Mittal

#19. When I focus on beauty, I can find it even in the midst of ugliness.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

David Whyte

#21. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Thornton Wilder