Guides Quotes - Page 2

• Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Long, Affair

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Teaching, Diversity, Social Justice

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

  Ethel Waters

  Ohio, Mohawks, Columbus

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• The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

  Dennis Banks

  Stars, Moon, Sun

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• 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 L. King

  Eye, Writing, Leaving

  Larry L. King (1987). “None but a blockhead: on being a writer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

  Kyan Douglas

  Teacher, Compassion, Understanding

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

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• Probability is the very guide of life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Investing, Statistics, Calculus

  "De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

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• The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

  Frances Wright

  Virtue

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.78

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• That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

  Anna Lindh

  Couple, Fighting, Years

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• God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

  Trevor Huddleston

  People, Giving, Leader

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• You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Believe, Adventure

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• Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Destiny, Progress, Public Opinion

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• And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

  Peter Shaffer

  Children, Thinking, Purpose

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• You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

  Sally Schneider

  Fun, Recipes, Way

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• The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Order, Talking, Voice

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• A conductor should guide rather than command.

  Riccardo Muti

  Should, Command, Conductor

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• Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

  Joyce Cary

  Soul, Doe, Body

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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• I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Mean, Guide Me, Everest

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• I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

  Claudio Hummes

  Faithful, Church, Trying

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• The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

  Nassau William Senior

  Political, Principles, Use

  Nassau William Senior (1849). “Political economy”, p.3

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• My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Teacher, Responsibility, Approach

  Autobiographical Essay for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Bible, Book, Civilization

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

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• When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

  Samuel Butler

  Writing, Men, Years

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4167, Delphi Classics

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• I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

  Reese Schonfeld

  Attitude, Thinking, Rating

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