Quotes About Direction

the road to the next duty is the only straight one

She was in utter darkness once more. But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

At length she gently pushed me away, and with the words, Go, my son, and do something worth doing, turned back, and, entering the cottage, closed the door behind her. I felt very desolate as I went. CHAPTER

bloweth where it listeth

Whether the lightning bewildered me and made me take a false turn, I cannot tell; for the hardest thing to understand, in intellectual as well as moral mistakes, is—how we came to go wrong.

For a man to be his own schoolmaster, is a right dangerous position; the pupil cannot be expected to make progress—except, indeed, in the wrong direction.

Like all other modern people, the English are in process of being numbered, labelled, conscripted, 'coordinated'. But the pull of their impulses is in the other direction

The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.

In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.

help must be given wisely

With a new vision, I saw the things I must do. First, I

To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and—like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is—looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.

By Fate, by Destiny, said the Vermonter. By the fact that time runs in only one direction, and we are borne along by it, influenced precisely as we are, to do just the things that we do, the bass lisper said.

Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.

We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you.

Franz Kafka'n?n vakti zaman?nda aç?klad??? gibi: Ula??lacak bir amaç vard?r ama yol yoktur; karars?zl?klar?m?za, duraksamalar?m?za yol ad?n? takar?z.

I'm at sea, lieutenant … We probably both are. Except that you, you fight the waves, you mean to go in a definite direction, whereas I let myself drift with the current, clutching here and there on a passing branch.

How the deuce would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?

drive him to Great Russell Street.

When we are really given to the why of life, the hows begin to flow.

Camminando la linea d'orizzonte ti dice sempre che tu sei disperso in un punto qualsiasi sulla linea della terra, come le cose che si vedono in distanza. Bisogna cercare un altro punto con cui fare asse, e immaginare che ci si arriverà una volta o l'altra. Bisogna sempre riuscire a immaginare quello che c'è là fuori, altrimenti non si potrebbe fare un solo passo.

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'

I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right.