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Quotes About Orientation

I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position. The shadows on the walls, on the faces, are not the same.
~ Elie Wiesel
I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position.
~ Elie Wiesel
I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
~ Mitch Hedberg
The people in L.A. do orient themselves to light. I used to call it 'Tan Fascist Culture.' Everyone there is tanned, wears dark sunglasses, looks like a movie star even when they're not.
~ James Turrell
I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.
~ John Lone
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
~ Betty Dodson
Anytime you come to a new team and with a new player there is a learning curve.
~ Robin Lopez
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
~ Thomas Paine
I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.
~ Karan Johar
A unifying theme in all the classical pragmatists as well as their successors is the development of a philosophical orientation that replaces Cartesianism (in all its varieties).
~ Richard J. Bernstein
Homosexuality is not a political choice; it is dictated by the imperatives of desire.
~ Rictor Norton
To be a cocksucker is to be oriented towards a specific gender.
~ Rictor Norton
outlier firms also appeared to have fewer big, high-risk all-or-nothing bets, which is also consistent with an options orientation.
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
You asked what Hazel would do. She'd be along her homing line, of course—and Hazel always oriented around her drive line so as to get the Sun on the back of her neck, if possible. Her eyes aren't too good.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
~ Jurgen Habermas
As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.
~ A.W. Tozer
The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
~ Margaret Thatcher
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
~ Alfie Kohn
Knowing your latitude and longitude is not the same as knowing where you are.
~ Jennifer Egan
As if the chart were given.
~ Emily Dickinson
The capacity to love demands a state of intensity, awakeness, enhanced vitality, which can only be the result of a productive and active orientation in many other spheres of life. If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in love either.
~ Erich Fromm
I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'
~ Evan Glodell
The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.
~ Jamila Woods