Quotes About Direction

Men will thank God on their knees, a hundred years from now, that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House, in a position to give leadership to the thought of the American people and direction to the activities of their government, in that dark hour when a powerful and ruthless barbarism threatened to overrun the civilization of the Western World.

These answers are fine as far as they go - but still children die, things go wrong, and hearts get broken, so the answers don't go very far. I certainly can't dispose of the challenges to Christian belief, nor can I make an entirely rational case for the existence of God. What I can do is join a vast chorus of voices who see religion as intrinsic and seek to make their home in the ethos of a faith that suggests an order and a direction amid the confusions of life.

Terrible things had been done in Haiti in his name. He had profoundly altered Haitian society for three years, set it spiraling frantically in the wrong direction, destroying the lives of thousands, tainting hundreds of thousands more.

Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.

He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.

he only ran that house as a way to

Aveva perso le tracce di ciò che voleva, e poiché una persona è ciò che vuole, si poteva dire che avesse perso le tracce di se stesso.

Well, just remember," Gary said, "there's more to life than cooking. You're at a stage now where you need to start thinking about what you really want and how you're going to get it.

He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

When you are in a car, bitch or no bitch, you can do anything you desire as long as you remain on your side.

I swam as fortune directed me, and

God has determined to steer what He hates in a direction that He loves!

La felicidad es, para mí, la satisfacción de saberse en el camino correcto. La felicidad es la tranquilidad interna de quien sabe hacia dónde dirige su vida. La felicidad es la certeza de no estar perdido.

Autodependencia significa contestarse las tres preguntas básicas: Quién soy, adónde voy y con quién.

No puedo definit mi camino desde ver el tuyo y no debo definirme a mí por el camino que estoy recorriendo.

No puedo definir mi camino desde ver el tuyo y no debo definirme a mí por el camino que estoy recorriendo.

Seguramente hay un rumbo posiblemente y de muchas maneras personal y único. Posiblemente haya un rumbo seguramente y de muchas maneras el mismo para todos. Hay un rumbo seguro y de alguna manera posible. De manera que habrá que encontrar ese rumbo y empezar a recorrerlo.Y posiblemente habrá que arrancar solo y sorprenderse al encontrar, más adelante en el camino, a todos los que seguramente van en la misma dirección.

There is a labyrinth which is a straight line.

Por lo demás, la literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.

yo sentía que el mundo es un laberinto, del cual era imposible huir, pues todos los caminos, aunque fingieran ir al norte o al sur, iban realmente a Roma

Bandeira, sin embargo, siempre es nominalmente el jefe. Da órdenes que no se ejecutan

You are responsible for allocating your life.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.