Compass Quotes - Page 11

• You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

  Michael Moore

  Needs, Frightened

  "All Things Considered" (NRP), November 2002.

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• Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Sea, Arriving

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: "Translated from the Original Italian"”, p.216, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

  Charles Goodnight

  Instinct, Lost, All Things

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• I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Blow, Weather, Two

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person, and where one starts and the other begins... I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

  David Tennant

  Nice, Thinking, Want

  "David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' - interview". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

  Samuel Johnson

  Safety, Long, Age

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.68

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• It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stars, Distance, Greatness

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.217, Harvard University Press

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• the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

  Grace S. Richmond

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• 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.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  People, Eccentric, Share

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

  Aristotle

  Law, Style, Purpose

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• The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Reading, Keys

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

  Kobo Abe

  Home, Knowing, Glasses

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage

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• Follow your compass, not your clock.

  Andrea Jung

  Clock

  "The Right Decisions Aren't Always Easy, Says Avon's Jung" by Dave Murphy, www.gsb.stanford.edu. November 1, 2009.

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• He that has patience may compass anything.

  Francois Rabelais

  May, Having Patience

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

  Albert Pike

  Squares, Circles, Justice

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

  Julio Cortazar

  Night, Mind, Hopscotch

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.53, Everyman's Library

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• All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Heart, People

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.438, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  Alexander Hamilton

  May, Constitution, Authority

  Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, 23 Feb. 1791

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• Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.

  David Hume

  Imagination, Heaven, Perception

  1739 A Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.2, section 6.

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• Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.

  William Mountford

  Nature, Clouds, Earth

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.155

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• 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.

  Robert Greene

  Sovereign, Would Be, Thorns

  Robert Greene, “Fawnia”

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• The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Law, Body, Too Much

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.672, Thomas Hobbes

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Harmony, Creation

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