Quotes About Directions

God's wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we can spend a lot of time and energy getting lost, or worse, asking for directions from people who only pretend to know the way.

When, suddenly, on an ordinary Wednesday, it seemed to Barney that the world tilted and ran downhill in all directions, he knew he was about to be haunted again.

This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

No matter which way you go, it's a confusion of highways. Direct routes were impossible because every road has to contend with an inconvenient feature of nature's landscaping called the Rocky Mountains.

develop the 100 word vocabulary taught to the Lao tribesman to make the rudiments of combat conversation. A few nouns, some basic single tense verbs, names of weapons and directions made up the pidgin English. Like spice, flavor was added by whichever additional words the Special Forces teacher felt appropriate. The basic word denoting the reproductive act, and its many wondrous and colorful variations, was by far the most popular and common.

I notice that the goddamn glue is blobbing all over the plastic and Matt wants to know, "Dad, don't you think you should read the directions?" and I want to tell my son: Don't you realize that I've never read the directions to anything in my life?

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Goals are like the gas in your car, you may go in many different directions after you fill up, but with out the gas you are not going anywhere

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions

I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.

The core cutter had powered up and accessed my feed to deliver a canned warning and a handy set of directions. Why yes, I did want to disengage the safety protocols, thanks for asking.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then?

There was an old musician's cliché, about how there were no wrong notes on a piano. But her life was a cacophony of nonsense. A piece that could have gone in wonderful directions, but now went nowhere at all.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small.

There is a mythical apace where directions and positions are determined by the placement of great affective entities...In the dream, as in the myth, we learn where the phenomenon is located by sensing what our desire moves toward, what strikes fear in our hearts, and upon what our life depends.

Answers? Ha, he would say that. More like riddles, mazes, labyrinths. If there's some power trying to show me the way, it should give better directions.

It was called Buys Ballot's law. In the Northern Hemisphere, if you stand with your back to the prevailing wind, the area of low pressure will be on your left and the area of high pressure on your right, because wind travels counterclockwise inward toward a center of low pressure. The directions are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere

The theory of six degrees of separation was never meant to see how many people we could find. It was a set of directions for how to find the people we have lost.

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

When the obstacles in the world become greater and more complex and seem to be coming from all directions at once, there are two great tendencies in the psyche. One is to simplify and quickly adopt some form of fundamentalism. The other is to accept the multiplicity and the great tension that come from embracing the world as it presents itself.

As you open your compass, consider that you are metaphorically repeating this first principle of the Monad, the opening of light, space, time, and power in all directions.