Driven Quotes

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We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we… — Tara Brach
Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have. — Lisa Kleypas
Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side.… — Nora Roberts
It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. — John Green
I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I… — Sarah Dessen
If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level â€” indeed in the molecule itself â€” it would be physically… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but… — Jon Krakauer
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
So, if people didnâ€™t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no… — Bill Bryson
If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we must discover them.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all… — Franz Kafka
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a… — Alan Watts
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back… — William Golding
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan
Ugh! Erin. You have a one-track mind." She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven. — Tammara Webber
Women have been driven mad, â€œgaslightedâ€, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.… — Adrienne Rich
Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now!… — Scott Lynch
Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS — Veronica Roth

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