Quotation Explorer - 'Directions'

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. - George Carlin
When a storm of devastation approaches you from all directions it readily knows your unlimited potential of fighting back. - Mumtaz Kazmi
Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void - Dean Cavanagh
What we believe is a matter of choice provided we have control over our thoughts. It’s no less than living in bliss with each passing moment when you can see your thoughts flowing in apt directions. - Taranpreet Singh
I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own. - James Beard
Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost. - Alex Gaskarth
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. - Alan Rickman
and there were times when i felt lost,but that did not stop me,for the further i went ,the more i collected myselfas i walked awayand the more i walked awaythe closer i got it to all,,,and in the end, i became the journey,and like all journeys,i did not end, i justchanged my directions. - r.m drake
There are just two directions in life, the one which is safe but boring, and the other which is delicate but exciting. Now ask yourself, which path will you go? - Joe Mari Fadrigalan
Destroy yourself. Be on the edge of it all, and right before that weird place tells you to let it go completely; let the energy go in all directions. Falling on your face will never be fun, or purposeful. You don't own energy; you own the inertia! - James Emlund
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about. - Oprah Winfrey
Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible. - Karl Marx
Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
We are all shining stars part of this UNIVERSE, which orbits the one SUN, but in different directions. - Abed Rahmani
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water? - John Steinbeck
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. - Stephen Leacock
If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here. - Steve Stockman
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support. - Osho
Politics is like a branches on a tree, they all grow in different directions but their roots remain as one. - Saminu Kanti
Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time? - Franz Kafka
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. - Sylvia Plath
Art, like love, moves the heart in unexpected directions. - Marty Rubin
If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite? - Anton Chekhov
She doesn't give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow...Find it. If you can. - Donna Lynn Hope
The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it. - Michelle Casto
More often than not a young couple stays in the same relationship, but they walk in different directions. - Debasish Mridha
Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart. - Toni Sorenson
Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The difference between a man and a woman is whether to ask for directions. - Edward Harris
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. - Bryce Courtenay
Don't ask for directions if you're not going to start the car. - Rob Liano
If life's journey was intended to be easy, we would have been given directions. However, since we have no road map, we must climb the highest mountain and forge the deepest streams with love in our souls, in the hope that our own journey will give us peace within... - Virginia Alison
It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. - Dave Barry
Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. - Terry Pratchett
Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you. - Bo Sánchez
Scriptures are as ‘helping problem’. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine? - Dada Bhagwan
Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell. - Shannon L. Alder
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."[Reviewing A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in New Directions for Women (1986)] - Marie Shear
When you're lost, admit it, and ask for directions. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right. - Amjad Khan
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions. - George Carlin
It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. - Mary Jo Putney
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