Compass Quotes - Page 5

• In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Heart, Feelings

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• I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sea, World, Saws

  Wallace Stevens (2005). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, History, Political

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

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• News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Class, Gossip, East

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• 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.

  Gideon Defoe

  Giants, Littles, Said

  Gideon Defoe (2010). “The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab”, p.47, Vintage

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• Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

  Suzy Kassem

  People, Humanity, Abandoned

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• ...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

  Huston Smith

  God, Christianity, Deeper

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• You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

  Peter Senge

  Stress, Vision, Keep Learning

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• Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Answers, Guts

  "How Oprah Faced Her Fear of Flying" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprahmag.co.za. April 2014.

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• Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.

  Bill Hybels

  Focus, Mind, Affection

  Bill Hybels (1993). “Laws of the Heart”, Victor Books

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• Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Women, Accusing Me, Splendid

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.

  Heidi Baker

  Christian, Religious, Passion

  Heidi Baker (2016). “Daily Insights to Birthing the Miraculous: 100 Devotions for Reflections and Prayer”, p.354, Charisma Media

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

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Advertising, Destination, Accurate

  Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.2, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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

  John Stott

  Giving, World, Crosses

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• However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Horizon, Four

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• Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Trying, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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

  Dan Ariely

  Our Society, Moral, Slips

  Dr. Dan Ariely (2013). “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Sleep, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

  Voltaire

  Math, Steps, Torches

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• 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.

  Matt Taibbi

  Safe, Financial, Rating

  "The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 19, 2013.

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• I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

  Ben Stiller

  Wind, Shining, Needs

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• How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?

  Toby Turner

  Hmmm, Ifs

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• Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Good Man, Apathy

  "On Education" (1867)

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• Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

  Stephen Graham

  Life, Science, Events

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• I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

  Eli Roth

  Film, My Own

  "Eli Roth answers your questions". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2013.

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