Compass Quotes - Page 16

• Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.

  Amy Johnson

  Eye, Boredom, Simplicity

  Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”

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• Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

  Joseph Badaracco

  Giving, Moral, Assuming

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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

  Animal, Gun, Vegetables

  "Tim Allen Talks LAST MAN STANDING, Classic Sitcoms, Stand-Up, and the Future of the TOY STORY Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 3, 2012.

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• History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Maps, Geography, Humans

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

  Ari Graynor

  Character, People, Males

  Source: collider.com

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• I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she really unfortunately would take her work home with her sometimes.

  Rachel McAdams

  Mother, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.enzasbargains.com

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• As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.

  Henry Giroux

  Principles, Needs, Moral

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

  Alexander Pope

  Ends, Regard

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, 'Arise, ye more than dead!' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  John Dryden

  Men, Order, Voice

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day' (1687) st. 1

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• A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

  Robert Townsend

  Inspirational, Heart, Leader

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• When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

  A. C. Dixon

  Real, Thinking, Order

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• The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Lying, Perception, Worship

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• Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Heart, Quality

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• It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Daughter, Son, Sea

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

  Daniel Webster

  Stars, Ocean, Land

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1903). “Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 1. Addresses on various occasions”

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• Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!

  Dave Barry

  Science, Simple, Water

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• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Struggle, Roots, Discipline

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• The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.

  Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne

  Christian, Jesus, Keys

  Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1843). “History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc”, p.341

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• Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Practice, Drawing, Perspective

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Believe, Heart, Order

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Truth, Lying, Speech

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• Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

  Dennis Prager

  Broken, World, Moral

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.3, Creators Publishing

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• While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having the government poke into your private life and your bedroom, like in Islamic countries, there are no moral compasses to tell what is right from wrong. The very notion of right and wrong has come under question. The motto is "if it feels good do it". Hedonism rules!

  Ali Sina

  Country, Islamic, Government

  Source: myislam.dk

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• If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

  William Penn

  Compassion, May, Ends

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.

  Richard Whately

  Moving, Eye, Men

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