Jeanette Winterson Quotes

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.