Quotes About Direction

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative:

they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

?uvaj se staza koje sužavaju budu?e mogu?nosti. Takve staze odmi?u od beskona?nosti i navode te u klopke smrtnosti.

I have another kind of sight. I see another kind of terrain: the available paths. The

The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever

Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training." "It

Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.

The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

That's the main job of cops in New York, telling everyone move back.

Joe came down to join Chet Morton, who sat at the car's wheel. "Where to?" he asked.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

You are free and that is why you are lost.

Alas, said the mouse, the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into. You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.

I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.

No, freedom was not what I wanted. Only a way out; right or left, or in any direction; I made no other demand; even should the way out prove to be an illusion; the demand was a small one, the disappointment could be no bigger. To get out somewhere, to get out! Only not to stay motionless with raised arms, crushed against a wooden wall.

ALAS," said the mouse, "the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up. Translated

A vida é um perpétuo desvio que nem sequer permite darmo-nos conta de que é que se desvia.

Hers was a nature made for intrigue, apparently working for no purpose, like the wind, according to strange and distant orders of which no one ever got a sight.

La palabra humana distorsiona mi vieja verdad de mono, que a mí mismo se me escapa; pero, eso sí, mi palabra apuntará en dirección a esa verdad.

Oh dear, said the mouse, the world shrinks with every passing day. At first it was so vast I was afraid; I ran on further and was cheered when at last, in the distance, to the right and to the left, I saw walls; but these long walls converge on one another so quickly that I'm already in the final room, and there, in the corner, lies the trap into which I'm running. You just have to change direction, said the cat, and ate him.