Quotes About Direction

There is no fifth destination.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop

I've just had an amusing flashback. All these creatures going in the same direction—they look like the commuters who used to surge back and forth twice a day between home and office, before electronics made it unnecessary.

there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question: "Where do we go from here?

Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground, there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question: "Where do we go from here?

All right," Otto Heilmann said a few minutes later, "we must now choose our leaders.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction, Nicole said to herself. Not even when confronted by infinity.

En ese momento, mientras su corazón anhelaba lo inalcanzable, tomó una decisión. Supo entonces qué haría con su vida.

Please move forward," the voice had interrupted.

In less than two hours its direction of motion had swung through more than ninety degrees, and it had given a final, almost contemptuous proof of its total lack of interest in all the worlds whose peace of mind it had so rudely disturbed.

I have come for advice. That is easily got. And help. That is not always so easy.

It's true that you set us on the right track; but you'll own now that it was more by good luck than good guidance.

After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines. Take your breakfast, Watson, and we will go out together and see what we can do. I feel as if I shall need your company and your moral support today.

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

Vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards.

What makes you think anyone has a roadmap? You think I know where I'm going? That I ever have? We're all mice stumbling in our mazes, trying to find our cheese. Hoping the levers we're pulling are the right ones and not the ones designed to shock us.

No one, she thought, can catch me now; they don't even know which way I'm going.

Like all boses—and on set, I'm the boss—I'm the boss only up to a point.

Another assumption is labelled 'regression', and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,as in what direction we are moving.To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the windand sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor

I Am the Architect of My Own Destiny

So many paths have led me astray . . . But now things are going to be different. I don't know what life is, but it is not loneliness.

There was nothing on yet except for the tobacco reports, so I snapped the radio back off and tried to figure out where to go.