Guide Quotes

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Paracelsus

Life, Music, Feeling

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte

Nature, Another, Walk

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.
Drew Barrymore

Dreams, Good, Child

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'
Terry Pratchett

Mean, Same, Become

Custom is the great guide to human life.
David Hume

Life, Great, Human

Music is your guide.
Billy Corgan

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
David Hume

Life, Reason, Custom

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
Buffalo Bill

Good, Himself, Left

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
Dennis Banks

Sun, Stars, Moon

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
Arthur Erickson

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.
Little Richard

Control, Try, Light

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
Ron Fournier

History, Victory, Means

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton

Life, Heart, Human

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
Barbara Jordan

Passion, Decision, Reason

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
Andrew Johnson

Courage, Honest, Conviction

May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Good, Allah, May

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.
Miranda Lambert

Life, Love, Music

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
Laura Linney

Work, Parents, Someone

If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
Halle Berry

Life, Work, Real

I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Betty White

Dog, Blind, Dogs

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
Harlan Coben

Once, Worked, Tour

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
Thomas Mann

Beauty, Path, Cannot

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
Robert Duvall

God, Lives, Holy

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
David Seabury

Life, Love, Control

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
George Saunders

Experience, Character, Often

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
Joseph Brodsky

Through, Language, Individual

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
Diane Sawyer

Follow, Passionate, Genuinely

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
Sloane Crosley

Best, Society, Parenting

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.
Kenny Loggins

Children, Learned, Everyone

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
Jeremy Bentham

Wrong, Matter, Himself

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