Compass Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

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.

Conscience is a man's compass.

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

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

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.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

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

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

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

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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.

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.