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Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic. -- Criss Jami
Passion without focus can lead you astray. -- Ken Auletta
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle. -- Mason Cooley
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. -- Oscar Wilde
It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray. -- Roger von Oech
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. -- Voltaire
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. -- Havelock Ellis
It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you. -- Willie Aames
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. -- Teresa of Avila
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. -- Dante Alighieri
The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray. -- George Villiers
Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved. -- Mohammed Omar
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.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray. -- Gunter Grass
Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal. -- Ivana Trump
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
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
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored. -- John O. Brennan
The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts. -- Vladimir Putin
How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray? -- Chris Robinson
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
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data. -- Aubrey de Grey
Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe. -- Mario Balotelli
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
It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there. -- Andrew Dost
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made. -- Bill Cosby
Faith in faith is faith astray. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Searching for precious goods leads astray. -- Laozi
Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray. -- Wasif Ali Wasif
Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue. -- Oscar Wilde
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. -- Jean Rostand
Children...will never go astray while they are in good company. -- Francis M. Lyman
[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray. -- Nat Hentoff
We should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray. -- Shirley Manson
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. -- Aldous Huxley
Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm. -- Donald Griffin
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road. -- Seneca the Younger
Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way. -- Matthew Prior
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. -- Algernon Blackwood
Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way. -- LeAnn Rimes
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them? -- Michael Faraday
We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble. -- Steve Berry
Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray. -- Nancy Spain
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. -- Teresa of Avila
Nissa, you have a kind and bold heart, Follow it, and you will never go astray. -- Brittany Oldroyd
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. -- Georges Bataille
Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow. -- Roger Kimball
Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. -- Frank Herbert
Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence. -- Georg Ebers
I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance. -- Zachary Quinto
Beyond the edge of universe,there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray. -- Toba Beta
But you don't need to worry. The Lord will never let his mouthpiece lead the people astray. -- Marion G. Romney
Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path. -- Thomas E. Mann
It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return. -- Timothy Shay Arthur
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. -- Paul Krugman
It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right -- Abigail Reynolds
The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray. -- George Villiers
Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray. -- Alfred Jodl
Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. -- Robert Burns
Master, take me in along with these people. Jesus answered and said, Your star has led you astray, Judas. -- Rodolphe Kasser
Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray. -- Immanuel Kant
It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless -- Takuan Soho
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray. -- Hank Johnson
Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil. -- Louis de Montfort
The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her -- Abraham Lincoln
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. -- Rumi
How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting. -- John Hagee
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it. -- Anthony de Mello
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere. -- Frank Arthur Swinnerton
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. -- Dante Alighieri
The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray. -- Wilford Woodruff
I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed. -- Kelly Link
I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray. -- Dominic Riccitello
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. -- Dante Alighieri
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray. -- Kabir
For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today. -- Bill Watterson
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
Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves. -- Bobby Fischer
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around. -- Charles Baudelaire
I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray. -- Paul Bloom
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read. -- Anya Seton
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. -- Denis Diderot
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way. -- William Cowper
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences. -- Ludwig von Mises
They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray. -- Rachel Cohn
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself. -- Immanuel Kant
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Seeking you go astray seeking you go in dreams seeking you go somewhere else and truth is here. Seeking, you go then; and truth is NOW -- Rajneesh
When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother. -- Jean Ingelow
Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people! -- Laozi
I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray. -- Oliver Herford
I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. -- Gustave Moreau
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment. -- D.T. Suzuki
Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray. -- Ibn Ata Allah
Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on errorâ??s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools. -- Al-MaÊ¿arri
I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is... -- Henry David Thoreau
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true. -- Tina Yothers
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else shaytan will lead your heart and mind astray. -- Omar Suleiman
Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability. -- D.T. Suzuki
I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want. -- Saint Augustine
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
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him. -- Hermann Hesse
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. -- George Eliot
Don't be special." That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I went astray. But there was no one moment. I was always astray -- Leila Sales
Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman. -- V V Brown
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. -- Thomas Jefferson
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach -- Sophocles

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