Propelled Quotes
60 quotes by 58 authors
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Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I…
— Nick Clegg
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Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars…
— Jef Mallett
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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
— Bernard Lown
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They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby…
— Michael Parenti
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I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were…
— Sheryl Crow
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I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the…
— Jorie Graham
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A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
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Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I…
— Barry Lopez
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The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz,…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled…
— Stan Getz
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Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
— Holly Near
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Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at…
— Chad Harbach
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not…
— Nikola Tesla
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A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled…
— Alexander Calder
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I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being…
— Steven Pressfield
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If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible…
— Bertrand Piccard
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But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride…
— Alan Loy McGinnis
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Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using…
— Steven Johnson
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Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.
— Adam Hart-Davis
Who Wrote These Propelled Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 60 Propelled Quotes, led by these top contributors: