Quotes About Direction

The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

A menudo encontramos nuestro destino por los caminos que tomamos para evitarlo.

Captain Prince shrugged. "Not when you're sure of your longitude.

Bowditch Ledge astern to the north of them .. .

People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing....

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. ... So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning, and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere.

She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am.

And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.

It is going dark. There are bombs exploding. Alice is losing patience. She throws down the map and shouts at Gertrude: 'THIS IS THE WRONG ROAD.' Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it.

If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me.

Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it

He had never talked of what he wanted to do, where he was going, he never joined in the aimless conversations that clustered round the idea of something better in another time. He didn't believe in the future, only the present, and as our future, our years, had turned so relentlessly into identical presents, I understood him more.

Si donc on écarte du pacte social ce qui n'est pas de son essence, on trouvera qu'il se réduit aux termes suivants: Chacun de nous met en commun sa personne et toute sa puissance sous la suprême direction de la volonté générale; et nous recevons en corps chaque membre comme partie indivisible du tout.

Lina looked out at the lighted streets spreading away in every direction, the streets she knew so well. She loved her city, worn out and crumbling though it was.

I found the gas, he said. Now all's I need to do is find the brake.

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

Que me den algo que hacer, lo que sea! Sería preferible que pensara en otra cosa, porque en este momento estoy por representarme la comedia. Sé muy bien que no quiero hacer nada; hacer algo es crear existencia, y ya hay bastante existencia.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.