Compass Quotes

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

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.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

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

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

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

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

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

Conscience is a man's compass.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

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