Quotes About Signposts

#1. Yes, a guide can help point the way to your own sense of self and your purpose in life. No, a guide can't replace your own search. When you are in your car driving through town, signposts can tell you where each road goes, but only you can turn the steering wheel.

Deepak Chopra

#2. Where the signposts end, the trail begins.

Marty Rubin

#3. What if his ambitions was just a name he gave to a kind of conformity, and he was going back because he wasn't brave enough to live a life that wasn't expected of him, a life so far from any road that there wouldn't be any signposts or milestones?

Caleb Crain

#4. He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

Frederick Forsyth

#5. Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

Larry King

#6. I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.

Gail Godwin

#7. Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress.

Lord Dunsany

#8. It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

Ron Brackin

#9. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one
the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts, ... Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.

C.S. Lewis

#10. The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger

#11. The problem with thoughtless signposting is that the reader has to put more work into understanding the signposts than she saves in seeing what they point to,

Steven Pinker

#12. All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

N. T. Wright

#13. I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

Max Born

#14. When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

Nido R. Qubein

#15. Signposts are our intuition asking inner wisdom to be set free.

Kami Guildner

#16. He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#17. Clothing is ... an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

Louise Bourgeois

#18. Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.

Balroop Singh

#19. There are no signposts in the sea.

Vita Sackville-West

#20. Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#21. Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside.

Richard Rohr

#22. Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

Fred Van Lente

#23. There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

James M. Kouzes

#24. All my signposts had gone up in one blinding, dizzying explosion [ ... ] none of the scenery looked familiar anymore.

Tana French

#25. ... the universe ... sets out little signposts for us along the way, to confirm that we're on the right path. (p.XV)

Michelle Maisto

#26. We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

Douglas Hurd

#27. They all count, even the wrong turns; they all add more to who you become. Nobody wants to be a one-way street. There are signposts if you cared to look.

Vikki Wakefield

#28. Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

Naum Gabo

#29. I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

Sloane Crosley

#30. Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Margot Asquith

#31. One seeks to contravene one's perceptions - why? So that one can wander utterly lost, without signposts or guide?

Philip K. Dick

#32. I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances.

Kerry Stokes

#33. Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

Oprah Winfrey