Driven Quotes
1156 quotes by 1004 authors
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Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?
— Cassandra Clare
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They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the…
— Nathanael West
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Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these…
— Charlaine Harris
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He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the…
— William Faulkner
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There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world…
— Alfred Bester
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You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?
— Terry Pratchett
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Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around.…
— Richard Carlson
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Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.
— Craig Ferguson
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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being…
— Voltaire
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
— James Joyce
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process…
— Edward R. Murrow
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Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other.…
— John Flanagan
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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the…
— Virginia Woolf
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...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
— Don DeLillo
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Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in…
— Maria V. Snyder
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The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching…
— George Monbiot
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