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Quotes About Direction

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.
~ William Shakespeare
Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
~ Fausto Cercignani
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
Your destiny can only be defined by you.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.
~ Unknown
Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.
~ Donald Knuth
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
~ Marc Andreessen
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
~ Charles de Gaulle
With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Walk on your own sacred path.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
~ Earl Nightingale
Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
~ Pearl S. Buck
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
In my experience the direction of life is toward incoherence—precisely what you would never confront. Maybe that was the only coherent thing you could think to do: die to deny incoherence.
~ Philip Roth
Human conduct can be regulated, and it will be regulated! The
~ Philip Roth
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
~ Philip Yancey
We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. GEORGE MARSHALL
~ Philip Yancey
I told you, I don't want you riding with me. Which is why I waited, Frieze explained patiently. To see what direction you were going in, so that I could make sure I took the opposite one. but of course, there may be wolves, or thieves, highwaymen or brigands, so I don't mind your company for the first hour or so.
~ Philippa Gregory
supposed to live a
~ Philippa Gregory
evolutionary phenomena (of course including the phenomenon known as man) are processus, they can never be evaluated or even adequately described solely or mainly in terms of their origins: they must be defined by their direction
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
But the centaurs ran the wrong way, back toward
~ Piers Anthony
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
~ Plato
we must go where the argument carries us, as a vessel runs before the wind.
~ Plato