Driven Quotes

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Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.… — George Will
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions… — Frances Parkinson Keyes
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings… — Alain de Botton
By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face… — Chuck Close
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the… — George Orwell
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally… — Noah Webster
The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that,… — Mary Stuart Masterson
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and… — Thomas Nelson Page
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are… — Richard Dawkins
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy. — Robert Breault
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits… — Edward Dahlberg
We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status — Jonathon Porritt
We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really… — Menzies Campbell
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards… — Rod Dreher
If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come… — D. H. Lawrence
I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and keep feeling like… — Nina Dobrev
I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were… — Quincy Jones
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would… — Nellie Bly

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