Driven Quotes - Page 34

• To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly. Yet when astronomers have the temerity to show that climate is driven by solar activities rather than CO2 emissions, they are dismissed as dinosaurs undertaking the methods of old-fashioned science.

  Ian Plimer

  Trying, Climate, Variables

  6 Copy quote

• If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.

  Hermann Hesse

  Intelligent, Men, Long

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

  Aerin Lauder

  Nice, Passion, Pride

  4 Copy quote

• I hope the doctrine that Christians ought to be gloomy will soon be driven out of the universe. There are no people in the world who have such a right to be happy, nor have such cause to be joyful as the saints of the living God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, People, Saint

  Charles Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 2”, p.231, Lulu.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Christian, Party, Home

  Interview in "The Los Angeles Examiner", August 1, 1926.

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House”, p.251, Open Road Media

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

  Yuri Milner

  Player, Russia, Social Network

  "DST's Yuri Milner: Facebook Is Going To Be The Social Graph That Unifies All Civilization". Interview with Jason Kincaid, techcrunch.com. May 24, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

  Alex Steffen

  Mother, Poor, Interest

  4 Copy quote

• Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

  Noah Baumbach

  Tourists, Manhattan, Wealthy

  4 Copy quote

• My passion for storm chasing has always been driven by the beautiful and powerful storms displayed in the heartland each spring.

  Tim Samaras

  Beautiful, Powerful, Spring

  14 Copy quote

• My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

  Tony Robbins

  Benefits, Life Is, Whole Life

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Loss, People, Needs

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

  Ben Kingsley

  Hunters, Looks, Jaguars

  14 Copy quote

• I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

  Justin Timberlake

  Writing, Kids, Tests

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Two, Romance, Mind

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Method, Empiricism

  4 Copy quote

• Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

  Moliere

  Learning, Past, Reason

  5 Copy quote

• A passion-driven exultant man sings out
  Sentences that he has never thought.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passion, Men, Sentences

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.247, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Boredom, Employment

  4 Copy quote

• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Excess, Pursue

  6 Copy quote

• Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Religion, Useless

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, Jovian Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

  Sophocles

  Broads

  4 Copy quote

• Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Block, Past

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Past, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
  Far off a precise whistle is escheat
  To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale.

  Allen Tate

  Running, Sunset, Dark

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.18, Macmillan

  21 Copy quote

  Show source