Quotes About Direction

The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn't sure who he was anymore. Or who I was.

But that wouldn't happen to us. I'd read a book of John Barth's, The End of the Road, and I'd absorbed its most important lesson. When you have to make a choice, and all else fails, take the one on the left.

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

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.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Where do I go from here? She thought to herself.Truth was, it didn't matter.She had a new beginning.

I would wish you gods speed but I don't want you to waste time looking for him.

If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.

Make a right, 40th Ave., that's when i smile and laugh

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.