Compass Quotes - Page 14

• You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wind, Feet, Away From Each Other

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.

  Beryl Markham

  Wind, Law, Understanding

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

  Alyson Stoner

  Who I Am, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

  Craig Newmark

  Running, Thinking, Trying

  "CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". The SFGATE Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.

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• America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

  Sam Watkins

  War, America, History

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• Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Oil, Soul, Important

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.14, Black Irish Books

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• put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Car

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• There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

  Ted Koppel

  Fashion, Peace, Trends

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• When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

  Henry Rollins

  Scary, Community, Looks

  "A 60 Second Commencement Address" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Clouds, Sea

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. I), 1939.

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• Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• Don't shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Change, Passion

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 03, 2011

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• Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Selfish, Destiny

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• But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the powerful. I'm sort of a soft-core libertarian in that my compass is generally pointing away from 'Let's let the government do this' Does it matter to me that it's Democrats who think we need more elaborate programs that involve shifting money from one group to another group or it's Republicans saying we need to take a harder look at what kinds of things people are watching on cable TV? Neither one of those things strikes me as a good idea.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Powerful, Thinking

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• Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.

  Annie Dillard

  Pain, Games, Skulls

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• Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Sight, World

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

  Herman Melville

  Truth, Men, Mind

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Ambiguities”, p.280, Herman Melville

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• The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

  Samuel Richardson

  Character, Heart, Interesting

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)”, p.3951, Delphi Classics

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• So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

  Kami Garcia

  Lame, Humans, Superpower

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.118, Penguin UK

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• One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Pride, Son

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.169

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• Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven.

  Rick Riordan

  Loyalty, Inspire, Glue

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• I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.

  Elif Safak

  Strong, Moving, Writing

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• Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.98, Da Capo Press

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• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our heart, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in. It can be difficult and even frightening to go against the grain, whether it's a personal disagreement with a friend, partner, or family member or a professional decision that affects coworkers and colleagues.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Believe, Heart, Order

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• Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

  Peter Drucker

  May, Able, Ships

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