Compass Quotes - Page 6

• Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Perception, Together

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• Democracy needs a moral compass.

  Jill Stein

  Democracy, Needs, Moral

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2016

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• I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

  Janet Fitch

  Song, Wind, California

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• Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!

  Moby

  Dream, Liars, Believe

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• The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

  Sting

  Philosophy, Heaven, Soul

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• My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

  Jack Wagner

  Kids, Helping, Moral

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Morality, Moral

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.87, Melville House

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• Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

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• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Clouds, Mad, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Eye, Artist, Voyages

  Wyndham Lewis (1976). “Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary Criticism”

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• Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles.

  Sean Covey

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Gratitude

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

  Mary Antin

  Practice, Use, Elements

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dream, Rose, Desert

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blow, Wind, Sailing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.688, Simon and Schuster

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• It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Love You, Thinking, Arrows

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments. Love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds,
  Or bends with the remover to remove:
  O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
  That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
  It is the star to every wandering bark,
  Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
  Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
  Within his bending sickle's compass come:
  Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
  But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
  If this be error and upon me proved,
  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Love You, Taken

  Sonnet 116

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• The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Imagination, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, People, Interesting

  "January Jones, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, Zoë Kravitz, Rose Byrne & Lucas Till Talk X-MEN: FIRST CLASS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Ocean, Biblical

  "Life Thoughts".

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• When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.

  Erwin McManus

  Voice, Knowing, Live Your Life

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• I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Moving, Winning

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.77, Rodale

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• If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Running, Pills, Would Be

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• I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hangover, Broken, Machines

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.

  Aldous Huxley

  Two, Feet, East

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Weather, Two, Sorrow

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.857, Xist Publishing

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