George Villiers Quotes

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

I lost my way for a long time.

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.