Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations
You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.
A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.
You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.
Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his G...
It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the c...
Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to...
If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.