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Quotes About Astray

Not dead. Not injured. Just . . . gone.
~ Erin Hunter
Well, then I will go on, however painful it may be to me to recall those terrible memories. What temptations! What trials! The devil often makes use of the most innocent things to lead a man astray.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, You shot the ambassador? You gave me the gun, protested Sounis. I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it! Eugenides told him. Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray, murmured the magus. You shut up! said Gen, laughing.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Yes, every once in a while, negative experiences occur: a ghost gone astray or an angry spirit encountered. Some spirits are less pleasant than others. Yet this shouldn't be cause for panic; these situations can be effectively dealt with, if you know what to do.
~ Judika Illes
In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide.
~ Billy Graham
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
~ Andre Weil
Knowledge will not be taken away from mankind, but scholars will disappear. When no scholar remains, stupid men will be put in command. They will go astray themselves as well as lead others astray.
~ Franz Rosenthal
How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?
~ Chris Robinson
Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray!
~ Lindiwe Mabuza
There are some overtly racist and sexist people out there—look around—but in general what we count and what we fail to count is often the result of an unexamined choice, of subtle biases and hidden assumptions that we haven't realized are leading us astray.
~ Tim Harford
My nature is to be cheerful and my foolish self is very likely to be led astray by happy, frivolous things, things of the moment, and I just can't help it, Jaimy, I can't. There is a wildness in me that can't be denied. I
~ L.A. Meyer
Metaphysics, whatever it may be, seems still to lead men astray much more than any physics.
~ Giorgio De Santillana
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.
~ John O. Brennan
I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
~ Oscar Wilde
We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I am quite content with philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
~ Oscar Wilde
I would suggest that we should appeal to Science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.
~ Oscar Wilde
Flung out of space
~ Patricia Highsmith
Every proposal to seek authorization elsewhere than in the gospel itself must lead us astray. The
~ Lesslie Newbigin
The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?
~ Unknown
I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement -- especially when walking behind it.
~ Unknown
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
~ Havelock Ellis