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Quotes About Direction

When vision fails Direction is lost. When direction is lost Purpose may be forgotten. When purpose is forgotten Emotion rules alone. When emotion rules alone, Destruction…destruction. F
~ Octavia E. Butler
Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression. We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to took down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Well, we're barely a nation at all anymore, but I'm glad we're still in space. We have to be going some place other than down the toilet.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Name plus purpose equals focus for me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.
~ Octavio Paz
Fame is like dust in a gusty wind. You never know in which way it is blowing. If you ever face the gust of the wind, don't get carried away.
~ Unknown
Desire in itself is empty, in other words it merely indicates direction, but never destination; destinations, in any case, always remain phantasmagoric and unclear; the closer we get to them, the more enigmatic they become. By no means is it possible to ever actually attain a given destination, nor, in so doing, appease desire.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Desire in itself is empty, in other words it merely indicates direction, but never destination; destinations, in any case, always remain phantasmagoric and unclear; the closer we get to them, the more enigmatic they become.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The tip of his penis rises like a vector, pointing out the window, toward the world.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Am I like that lost day when you fly east, and that regained night that comes from going west?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.
~ Oliver Cromwell
A man never goes so far as when he does not know wither he is going.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
~ Unknown
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."
~ Oprah Winfrey
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
~ Oprah Winfrey