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Time moves in one direction, memory in another. -- William Gibson
Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. -- Marc Ribot
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. -- Sophie Swetchine
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly. -- Dan Rather
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. -- Mohsin Hamid
I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction. -- Carre Otis
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too. -- Anna Wintour
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People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up. -- Andy Stanley
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past. -- Albert Einstein
You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad. -- Charles Bukowski
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things. -- Andy Stanley
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread. -- Adrienne Rich
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. -- Arthur Golden
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up. -- Bill Moyers
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted. -- Terry Pratchett
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. -- Larry Niven
Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do. -- Oliver Stone
A clock only turns one direction -- Nancy E. Turner
There's only one direction you can coast-downhill. -- Brian Tracy
Life's too much fun to have it go in just one direction. -- Carly Rae Jepsen
Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another. -- Mark Twain
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction. -- CrimethInc.
The nation should move towards one target, one direction, one intention and one decision. -- Narendra Modi
But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down. -- Alexander Whyte
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation. -- William Herbert Sheldon
Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home. -- Michael Flynn
I make the necessary "corrections" if I find myself leaning too far in one direction. -- Brenda Strong
Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose. -- Jean Fleming
When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way. -- Armand Hammer
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. -- Tom Stoppard
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another. -- Jerome K. Jerome
I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely. -- Zadie Smith
An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element. -- Luc Tuymans
...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there. -- Joshua Slocum
There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.) -- Errol Morris
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. -- Edmund Burke
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. -- James Russell Lowell
The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate. -- Bert Hellinger
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp. -- Agnes Repplier
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction. -- Andy Serkis
Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families. -- Jeb Hensarling
Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me. -- Paul Schrader
My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone. -- Stefano Pessina
For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much. -- William Golding
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Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. -- Bertrand Russell
To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction. -- Jerry West
Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants. -- T.F. Hodge
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another. -- Barry White
Look upward to your God for direction! Look inward into yourself and discover your talents! Look outward into your environment and get helped! Stop looking at one direction! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate. -- Zhang Xiaogang
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
Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me. -- Ayn Rand
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane. -- Jonathan Lethem
If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future. -- Alberto Villoldo
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. -- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies. -- Ben Stiller
When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction. -- Anthony Trollope
Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricty goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires. -- Dave Barry
The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another. -- Willie Brown
Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work. -- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen. -- Steven Soderbergh
If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain. -- Mac DeMarco
President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it. -- Ken Follett
Jay lurched in one direction, jerked back, lurched in another, tripped for no reason. He finally made it through a gauntlet of invisible obstacles and crouched behind a water fountain shaped like a hippopotamous throwing up. -- Adam Rex
How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.' -- Bill Maher
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh. -- Rod Carew
I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man. -- Thomas De Witt Talmage
I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences. -- Noreena Hertz
Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said. -- Kenneth Oppel
You can't run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn't Him you're running towards. -- Yasmin Mogahed
The advancement of technology has probably guided us more than anything else in one direction or another. I don't know, it's hard to say. We're so much more connected, but we've never been more fractured as a culture. -- Zachary Quinto
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh. -- Rod Carew
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. -- Isadora Duncan
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. -- Squarepusher
You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine. -- Gil Scott-Heron
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things. -- Vince Gill
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music. -- Eric Hoffer
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. -- Squarepusher
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being. -- James Earl Jones
And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have. -- Jim Bolger
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted. -- Amos Tversky
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not corrected as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted. -- Amos Tversky
Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you. -- Thomas Ligotti
We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction. -- Stephen L. Carter
There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up. -- Scott Stapp
It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more. -- Pascal Lamy
In flight...entire days can be wound back or skipped over...as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction. -- Josh Gates
It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives. -- Dinaw Mengestu
We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another. -- Samantha Power
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do. -- Rowan Williams
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery. -- Walter Murch
And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission? -- John Spratt
All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement. -- Neale Donald Walsch
That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find. -- Chester Brown
Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ. -- Max Heindel
When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks. -- Denzel Washington
Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why? -- Dan Rather
One Direction are super cool. -- Dionne Bromfield
One Direction? The young girls will grow up and forget about 'em. -- Jake Bugg
Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another. -- James Franco
One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine -- Morgan Spurlock
I'd love to write for One Direction. I think they've done incredibly well. -- Gabrielle Aplin
There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain. -- Alex Turner
I have a huge crush on Josh Hutcherson and all the guys in One Direction! -- Rebecca Black
I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction. -- Jamie Blackley
Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me. -- Sean Paul
I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song -- Will Ferrell
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction. -- Leslie Fiedler
Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying. -- Richard Foster
It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction. -- Rob Reiner

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