Rudderless Quotes

#1. My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.
We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.

Anne McCaffrey

#2. Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

Vince Lombardi

#3. Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.

Klaus Schwab

#4. Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.

Mike Catt

#6. Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

#7. No one will read what I write here, no one will come to help me ... My ship is rudderless, it's driven by the wind blowing into the nethermost regions of death.

Franz Kafka

#8. Without new visions, we don't know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us

Robin D.G. Kelley

#9. You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

David Nicholls

#10. Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#11. A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.

Elisha Gray

#12. Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

Rich Lowry

#13. It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.

John Kasich

#14. Expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

Virginia Gildersleeve

#15. I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

John Lydon

#16. There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

Grant Heslov

#17. I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.

Les Dawson

#18. We all change, and we all feel rudderless at times. there is nothing wrong in allowing yourself to drift.
~Zeke

Stephanie Stamm

#19. Yeah," he said, eyelashes lowering as his gaze traced the movement of her fingers. "It hurt me being away from you. It feels like there's a hook dug in under my ribs, and there's something pulling at the other end. Like I'm tethered to you, no matter the distance.

Cassandra Clare

#20. If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.

Jack Ma

#21. It's kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.

Richard Linklater

#22. Raven briefly pondered the phrase, "staring down the barrel of a gun". It wasn't really that accurate, he decided. After all, it was too dark to see any features down a barrel, only a black circle at the end of it.

A. Ashley Straker

#23. My mother taught me to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day, so I always do that - I could be partying or working late, but I'm never too tired to take care of my skin.

Emilia Clarke

#24. When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

Chris Christie

#25. It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Christopher Hampton

#26. Oh, I don't wear a bathing suit. I wear a tent when I go out.

Greg Proops

#27. A house panel in Texas has approved full marijuana legalization for the state. Yeah, meaning Texas could go from having dude ranches to 'Dude, ranches.'

Jimmy Fallon

#28. Ranger slung an arm around me and hugged me into him, and I could feel him laughing. "It's not funny," I said. "Babe, I haven't got a lot of funny in my life. Let me enjoy the moment.

Janet Evanovich

#29. Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

Ana Ivanovic

#30. PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Schleicher.

Amanda Ripley

#31. It is a woman, and only a woman, - a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, - who can turn a house into a home.

Frances Power Cobbe

#32. When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

Roger Ebert

#33. To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

Ginni Rometty