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Quotes About Direction

I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.
~ Elvis Presley
I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"
~ Richard Patrick
Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
~ Payal Kadakia
Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb
~ Stanley Bing
Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
~ Wendell Berry
You see, we don't have enough sense to make these decisions. Somehow, you just get led to where you're supposed to be, if you're willing to submit.
~ Wendell Berry
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which to go, we have begun our journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
~ Wendell Berry
Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.
~ Wendell Berry
Part of the pleasure has to do with a sense of efficiency, of materials exactly allocated and completely used. Another part has to do with a sense of inevitability, the feeling that someone knew where we were headed all along, even if we and the characters did not.
~ Wendy Lesser
You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces.
~ White Eagle
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
More than weapons, we need a leader.
~ Wilbur Smith
I need a road." Isazi shrugged. "The one to the north is no longer or harder than the road to the south.
~ Wilbur Smith
Os calculistas, aqueles que vêem a vida como um jogo de astúcia que depende de uma cuidadosa avaliação de modos e meios, sempre sabem para onde estão indo e conseguem chegar lá. (...) Mas quando se trata de forças dinâmicas da vida e daqueles que personificam essas forças, tudo se torna mais difícil. As pessoas que desejam apenas atingir a auto-realização jamais sabem para onde estão indo. Nem podem sabê-lo.
~ Wilde, Oscar
?ovjek! Ljudi! Propustit ?e stotinu dobrih prilika samo da se upetlja ondje gdje ga nitko ne traži. Propustit ?e i ne?e opaziti prilike da stekne bogatstvo, slavu ili u?ini neko dobro djelo, a katkada, možda, i zlo. Ali nikada ne?e propustiti da se ne upetlja ondje gdje ga ne treba.
~ William Faulkner
He aimed for them to stay put like a tree or a stand of corn. Because if He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn't He put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.
~ William Faulkner
When [God] aims for something to be always a-moving, He makes it longways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. . . . [I]f He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would. Anse in As I Lay Dying, pp. 34-5
~ William Faulkner
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
~ William Gibson
Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the following cliche is truer than most: You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.
~ William Gibson
Netherton was looking at the oversized bronze head of a bearded man, its neck having been crudely severed from whatever figure it must once have topped. "Lee," said Fearing, noting the direction of Netherton's gaze. "Robert E." The name meaning nothing to Netherton.
~ William Gibson
We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.
~ William Golding