Best 99 quotes in «compass quotes» category

If I wanted to be free, truly free, I had to choose. There were many points on the compass rose; I had to locate the few that were meant for me. Not any destination picked at random; I had to head for those that summoned me with a passion, for they were the ones that gave meaning to my life. I had to ignore the warnings of those who would tell me why I couldn't do what I wanted to do.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

I have an excellent internal compass.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

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

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

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

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

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

My inside self and my outside self used to match.  A compass needle pointed true north.  Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

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

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

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

The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.