Driven Quotes

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He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two… — Douglas Adams
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the… — D. A. Carson
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. — William Faulkner
she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to… — Paulo Coelho
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to… — Dean Koontz
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hungerâ€¦ they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if… — Tacitus
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and… — William Faulkner
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we… — C.S. Lewis
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. — Michael Crichton
If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it… — Martin Luther
When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward.… — Gene Wolfe
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,… — Terry Pratchett
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take… — Florence King
She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so… — Jonathan Franzen
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating… — Rumi
Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all… — Holly Black
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved… — Henrik Ibsen
They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldnâ€™t go any futrther… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations… — Brenda Ueland

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