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If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance. -- Seamus Heaney
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. -- John Updike
If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own. -- Vladimir Putin
No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. -- Lefty Gomez
The phone conversations about a possible TV series of 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' stretch back years, but now that the moment has come, now that I am actually here at Wentworth Woodhouse, I lose my bearings. -- Susanna Clarke
Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town. -- Gary Calamar
People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people. -- Jessie Cave
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one. -- Colm Toibin
I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing the bearings of my life. My sisters took it badly, but I took it worse. Throughout my lean phases, Dad was like a solid rock, supporting me, whether it was work, or my jail term. -- Sanjay Dutt
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. -- Charles Dickens
We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. -- William Godwin
i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. -- Khaled Hosseini
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings. -- Jo Coudert
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world. -- John Stott
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings. -- George Saunders
You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously. -- John Barth
I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97. -- Angie Martinez
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by. -- Henry David Thoreau
As the sailor locates his position on the sea by shooting the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. -- A.W. Tozer
I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine. -- Thomas A. Edison
Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this. -- David Levithan
It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism. -- Alan Moore
Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film. -- Karel Reisz
When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie. -- M.L. Stedman

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