Direction quotes

Explore the different directions life can take with our vast collection of thought-provoking quotes. From finding your true path to embracing change, let these inspiring words guide you in the right direction.

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

- Jason Schwartzman

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

- William Falconer

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

- Kit Williams

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

- Richard M. Nixon

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

- John Naisbitt

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

- Marc Ribot

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

- Dave Edmunds

According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.

- Pieter Zeeman

They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.

- Dwight Schultz

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

- Henry Charles Carey

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

- Leslie Fiedler

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

- Talcott Parsons

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

- Roger Penrose

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

- Michael Novak

I am pleased with the direction we are moving in.

- Jim Nussle

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

- Pieter Zeeman

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

- Anthony Hopkins

The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

- Zebulon Pike