Driven Quotes - Page 20

• ... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Law, Function

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• I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Dirty, Civilization

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8707, Delphi Classics

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• The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Curiosity, Criminals

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• At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Military, Flying, Historical

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• The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Rain, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau”

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• I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Unrequited Love, Cherish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.285

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• So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Strength, Strong, Wall

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.

  Mary McCarthy

  Despair, Finals, Looks

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

  Milton Friedman

  Business, Loss, Community

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• We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Sacrifice, Lasts, Inevitable

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• I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

  William Faulkner

  Pain, Hangover, Thinking

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• It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

  Christopher Lasch

  Bourgeoisie, Peculiar, Horror

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• If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Jobs, Effort, Pay

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Believe, Parent

  "Blair seeks to please with a populist list" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 1999.

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• Man is a Creature of a wilful Head,
  And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

  Samuel Daniel

  Men, Creatures

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• Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Thinking, Two, Movement

  Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press

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• In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

  Terry Eagleton

  Responsibility, Media, Life Is

  "Leveson inquiry: the frontiers of privacy" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

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• The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

  John Welch

  Leadership, Smart, Numbers

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• As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

  Katarina Witt

  Sports, Passion, Athlete

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• The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

  Tom Hanks

  Mean, Years, Desire

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' Larry Crowne: A family affair". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

  Billy Gibbons

  Song, Process, High Road

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• Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

  David Frum

  Views, People, Tone

  "Despite setbacks, Frum beats on" by Daniel Libit, www.politico.com. September 01, 2009.

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• I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

  Alastair Campbell

  Believe, Very Deep, I Believe

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• I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hate, Losing, Ruthless

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• I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Believe, Heart, Europe

  "José Manuel Barroso: "How is Britain so open to the world, but so closed to Europe?"". Interview with David Miliband, www.newstatesman.com. July 11, 2012.

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