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Quotes About Orientation

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
~ Unknown
Maybe sometimes it can take a player a bit longer to get comfortable and to get to know everyone and exactly what he needs to do.
~ Jimmer Fredette
There's no way that can be the river, Rhiow said. Rhi, the ceiling of Grand Central-- Saash said. It's backward, Rhiow snapped, thank you very much, I know all about it. Is it? Saash said. Which direction are you coming at it from? Rhiow closed her mouth and thought about that.
~ Diane Duane
How could there be a north below a south? Is this what I found confusing?
~ Don DeLillo
In some Australian Aborigine societies, time moves relative to the environment based on the direction in which the sun rises and sets. Give
~ Donald A. Norman
New Testament scholar Richard Hays notes that there is not "an exact equivalent for 'homosexual' in either Greek or Hebrew."22 The Bible, in its original Hebrew and Greek, has no concept like our present understanding of a person with a homosexual orientation. Indeed, the concept of an ongoing sexual attraction to people of one's own sex did not exist in European or American language until the late nineteenth century.23
~ Unknown
If a whole people is oriented toward the search for justice or purity, if it obeys in depth the primacy of the spiritual, it does not suffer from the lack of material things, just as we today do not feel the inverse need of the spiritual.
~ Jacques Ellul
See, when we say a "spiritual seeker," unfortunately most people assume that he is God-oriented. A spiritual seeker is not God-oriented; if Devil is the chief of existence, he wants to know that. We want to know what is true; we are not interested in proving our belief systems, because we don't have any.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future.' ...hope is our positive orientation toward the future, a future in which we simultaneously recognize difficulty, responsibility, and delight. Hope is not relative to the present situation, nor is it dependent upon a specific outcome... Hope is not an antidote to despair, or a sidestepping of difficulty, but a companion to all these things.
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
We don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire-we tend to think if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.
~ John Irving
Further along" is fairly specific compared to other New Hampshire forms of directions; we don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.
~ John Irving
So that's what it means to be a nonpracticing homosexual, I thought: it means I don't know what I am!
~ John Irving
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
~ John Lennon
always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.
~ John Steinbeck
A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.
~ Virginia Satir
northwest corner.
~ Marcus Sakey
One might say that instead of regarding psychoanalysis primarily as a therapeutic method, Lacan envisions it as a profoundly philosophical undertaking that—a bit like traditional renderings of the art of living—possesses the potential to revise the subject's perception of the basic orientation of its existence.
~ Unknown
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.
~ Mark Epstein
Yeah, I actually do know where I am.
~ Mark Hoppus
Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.
~ Mark Jenkins
Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.
~ James W. Fowler
I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards.
~ Unknown
We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.
~ Senator John Kerry
I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
~ Dusty Springfield