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Astray Quotes

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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Henry Ellis

Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.
Mohammed Omar

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
Andre Weil

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Alexander Herzen

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
Willie Aames

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.
Roger von Oech

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
Mason Cooley

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
David Wilkerson

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
Greg Egan

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
George Villiers

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
Hannes Alfven

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
Cicely Tyson

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
Matthew Prior

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