Quotes About Navigation

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

My legs are long, so I can cover a lot of ground, even if I have to dodge people left and right and sometimes leap over their heads. This is easy to do because they move in slow motion, like a herd of zombies or slugs.

the girl with the maps and the travel books and the plans.

Sure, I could just use a GPS, but I would feel silly putting in directions to go to the mall when I've been there a million times. It should come to me intuitively, easy, where I don't even have to think about it. Instead I worry over every turn, second-guess every highway sign—is it north or is it south, do I turn right here or is it the next one? I've never had to pay attention.

After a couple of minutes things aren't looking so familiar, and I realize I should have taken a left instead of a right. I push down the panic that's rising in my chest and I try to backtrack. You can do it, you can do it.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

White Star liner Megantic

After noting that Germany's submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: "For our part, we want the traffic—the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better

Don't think, old man, he said aloud. Sail on this course and take it when it comes.

in those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown's Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these rich I was as trusting and as stupid as a bird dog who wants to go out with any man with a gun, or a trained pig

I knew there were many side-roads but did not want one that would lead to nothing.

A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island." It

To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight's duty is to proceed in that direction.

Clyman trying to warn Reed about the desolation he had just seen in the Great Salt Lake Desert. Remembering the conversation years later, Clyman said he told Reed to "take the regular wagon track, and never leave it—it is barely possible to get through if you follow it, and it may be impossible if you don't.

He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts. (Death Of A Traveling Salesman)

And all the way, to guide their chime,With falling oars they kept the time.