Compass Quotes - Page 13

• If it's January, I'm dead in three hours. But in June, I'd be hungry, but I'd make it out. I'd find my way without a map or compass. I say that with confidence. I can build a fire without a match.

  Rob Corddry

  Fire, June, Three

  "20Q Rob Corddry". Interview with Eric ­Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. September 22, 2014.

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• He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

  David Levithan

  New Life, Firsts, Danger

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.67, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Wise, Goal, Territory

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• Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Men, Light

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.480

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• The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

  Samuel Pisar

  Men, Holocaust, Moral

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• The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Struggle, Priorities, Important

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (2015). “First Things First”, p.20, Mango Media Inc.

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• I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

  Adam Braun

  Way, Might, Failing

  Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness.

  Tom DeLonge

  Together, Events, Tangible

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• Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Struggle, Commitment

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• Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.

  Diego Della Valle

  Country, Circles, Paper

  "Captain Italia" by Alessandra Ilary, www.townandcountrymag.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Jem, Cecily thought, with a pang in her heart. Her brother had always looked to him as a kind of North Star, a compass that would ever point him toward the right decision. She had never quite thought of her brother as lucky before, and certainly would not have expected to do so today, and yet-and yet in a way he had been. To always have someone to turn to like that, and not to worry constantly that one was looking to the wrong stars.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Stars, Heart

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• Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Life, May, Want

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• The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.

  Carl Safina

  Compassion, Giving, Might

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.407, Henry Holt and Company

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• No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

  Alan Paton

  Stars, Lying, Journey

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Husband, Regret

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• One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry for her. She’s not near as smart as you. She wasn’t born with your compass, so she wanders around, bumping into all sorts of walls. That’s sad.” I understood what he meant, and it made me see Mother differently. But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Mother, Wall, Sorry

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• 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

  Moving, Two, Feet

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.555

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• We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Science, Rivers, Mountain

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• My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

  Ben Quayle

  Broken, Moral, Parking

  "Dan Quayle's Son Wins Congressional Primary". www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2010.

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• To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

  Alfred Nobel

  Sister, Cheer, Memories

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• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Loss, Opinion

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.92

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• Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.

  Kathleen H. Hughes

  Stars, Mean, Home

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• I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Fear, Doe, Trembling

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've been reading some philosophy - everybody seems to agree that the instinct and responsibility of all humans is to take care of themselves first. You have the right to self-defense. You have the right to survive, if you can.

  Nancy Werlin

  Strong, Philosophy, Reading

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