Quotes with compass

  • To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

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  • Henry Ward Beecher Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation 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, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Joseph Addison Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Robert Townsend A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Sir Walter Scott A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Ada Cambridge Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
    The Hand in the Dark And Other Poems
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • Aldous Huxley But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Conscience is a man's compass.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Joseph Cook Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
    Joseph Cook
    6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914 (1860 - 1947)
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  • Brad Henry Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Beryl Markham For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. It demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bruce Lipton For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • William Ellery Channing It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Khaled Hosseini Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Heinrich Heine Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 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
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Charles Churchill Our real wants in a small compass lie.
    Independance (1764)
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Colley Cibber Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
    Colley Cibber
    English actor-manager, playwright and poet (1671 - 1757)
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  • Carlton Cuse Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bjork There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour
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    There's no map
    And a compass
    Wouldn't help at all
    Songs Human Behaviour (single; 1993)
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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