Quotes About Orientation

I was getting a dim comprehension of the difference between Hallie and me. It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it. The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Say something," he said. "What?" I mumbled, struggling to orient myself. "What?" "Can you hear me? What day is it? Who's the president?" "Yes, I don't know, and a horse's ass.

What direction are we heading in, Jenny?' he asked. 'East,' she replied promptly. 'How do you know that?' 'Because you told me that's the direction we were taking.

Meine Mutter, wiewohl wachsam und wiewohl Lehrerin, war niemand, der ausdrücklich Orientierung offerierte, und vielleicht ist es sogar ihr zuzuschreiben, dass ich Liebe ganz selbstverständlich mit einem in Schweigen verfallenen Haus assoziiere.

Though the single atoms change their orientation incessantly, they produce on the average (owing to their enormous number) a constant small preponderance of orientation in the direction of the field and proportional to it.

What's more, in this view, we ourselves are not God; we are creaturely knowers. Our glory as humans is to know from a particular place and orientation, to journey toward what we do not yet know. Always we are on the way. We are on the way with respect to knowing God as well as knowing our world. We understand partially. We know as we give ourselves and as we are known.

I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.

An effective introduction should accomplish three objectives. It gets attention, it surfaces a need, and it orients the audience to the body of the sermon. I tried to do that. (You can judge whether I was successful.)

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

Anytime you get traded, you are trying to figure out what freeways get you where, and where the meal room is, and where the locker room is, and you get yourself used to that.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

I am of the school that believes, for the most part, that gays are born and not made. That is, I believe - and there appears to be significant scientific evidence to back me up - that there is a genetic predisposition to be gay.

The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

lesson began—more of a get-to-know-you

as one looks instinctively at the clock: that must be right. That will tell me where I am

As far as my own sexual orientation, I'm only seventeen years old and as of right now, I'm straight, but who knows what's to come?

Eigentlich gehörte sie zu einer Generation, deren turnschuh-tragenden und Sushi-essenden Vertretern schon der Besitz einer Hauskatze als unerträgliche Verantwortung erschien. "Haus bauen, Baum pflanzen, Kind zeugen" war kein Glücksrezept mehr, sondern eine Horrorvision. Die Ewigpubertierenden wollten sich alles offen halten und wunderten sich dann über Orientierungslosigkeit.

Metaphysics, in my understanding, is the unity of knowledge and the meaning and orientation this unity gives to life. If this unity is the unity of knowledge, how can it be all that subjective? It is a faith grounded in knowledge.

As usual, I don't know which way is north, but I know the direction of beauty.

Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.

I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?