Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Wouk

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

Helen Oyeyemi

If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.

Jonathan Pryce

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

John Henry Patterson

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

John Oliver

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

Joseph Campbell

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

Jimmy Buffett

find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor

Jim Rohn

If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

Joseph Conrad

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

John Keble

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

Louis Armstrong

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.

Mahatma Gandhi

Find yourself by losing yourself for others.

Meg Rosoff

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

Joseph Brodsky

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

Laurence Gonzales

To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.

Nhat Hanh

If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

Jodi Picoult

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.

Lizzy Caplan

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

Robert Henri

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

Eckhart Tolle

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified ­ neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.

Terry Pratchett

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Richard Branson

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.

William J. Clinton

The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

Willem Dafoe

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.