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“It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.”

May Justice Wall Tasks Weak Driven Being True Weak Will

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.”

Should Kind Self Government Difficult Citizens Demand Fairs Driven Patriotic Public Service Idealist Self-government Government Shutdown

Author:Barack Obama

“I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.”

Want Fingers Driven Stuck Pot

Author:Michael Musto

“The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.”

Needs Different Today Business Driven Singers Producers Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Cynthia Weil

“Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.”

Thinking Way Trying Sometimes Character Opportunity Parent Comedy Type Driven Old Fashioned

Author:Jay Roach

“The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.”

Stills Light Dark White Behinds Break Sea Feet Sky Huge Moon Twenties Driven Awful Lit Sailor Rushing Blackness Foam

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”

Wisdom Habit Overcoming Driven Nails Daily Habits

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.”

Thinking Way Wonderful Example Innovation Constant Driven Philanthropy

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers.”

Company Vision Customers Driven Aspiration Customer Success

Author:Konosuke Matsushita

“If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus”

Ifs Knows Looks Different States Know How Areas Driven Texas Dallas Texan El Paso

Author:Lee Trevino

“And whatever the form of your own resurrection, you will arise, driven not by the Great Search, but by your own Great Duty, your limitless Dharma, the manifestation of your own highest potentials, and the world will begin to change because of you. And you will never flinch, and you will never fail in that great Duty, and you will never turn away, because simple, ever-present awareness will be with you now and forever, even unto the end of the worlds, because now and forever and endlessly forever, there is only Spirit, only intrinsic awareness of just this, and nothing more.”

Source: The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad

“It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)”

Different Might Strong Given Force Rocks Findings Approach Driven Occasions Mathematical Subtle Cracks Delicate Mathematician Routes Climbers

Book:Littlewood's Miscellany

Source: Littlewood's Miscellany

“. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.”

“Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.”

Knows Want Mean Enough Character Happens Action Film Next Stars Audience Studios Driven Crafts Spite Plot Executives Stink

Author:David Mamet

“Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Ends Play Character Stories Dream Action Film Form Literature Answers Novel Alive Stage Television Fit Driven Screens Crafts Furniture

Author:Israel Horovitz

“Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.”

Soul Home Light School Together Moving Law Church Secret Grace Tomorrow Evidence Safety Fishes Driven Priests Righteousness Candle Icons

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“We feel the breath of the wind upon our cheeks, we see the dust and the leaves blowing before the wind, we see the vessels at sea driven swiftly towards their ports; but the wind itself remains invisible. Just so with the Spirit; we feel His breath upon our souls, we see the mighty things He does, but Himself we do not see. He is invisible, but He is real and perceptible.”

Feels Doe Real Soul Spirit Sea Wind Breaths Remains Driven Invisible Dust Cheeks Vessel Port

Author:R. A. Torrey

“Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.”

World Looks Soul Order Principles Return Ought Demand Madness Mad Noble Driven Loyalty Confusion Guidance March Host Sane Reducing Wrecks Fiery Subordination Mutiny

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.”

Littles Literature Opportunity Position Humble Driven Driving Mutual Bus Peculiar Vehicle Behaviour Exceptional Observing Cultivating Oatmeal

Book:Sammlung

Source: Sammlung

“I think driving in New York is a great experience. A lot more racing techniques go into it than anyplace else I've ever driven. There basically are no lanes.”

Thinking New York Driven Technique Driving Racing Lanes Great Experiences

Author:Jeff Gordon

“One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.”

Mind Humans Cities Middle Wall Thousand Connections Tragedy Driven Despite Chinese These Days Borders Division Concrete Pillars Administrative

Author:Willy Brandt

“I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan.”

Ifs Knows Care Girl Fans Type Driven Girlfriend Biggest Fan

Author:Hunter Hayes

“I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.”

People Thinking Want Heard Weapons Argument Driven Symbols Confused Organs Helpless

Book:The Probability Broach

Source: The Probability Broach

“Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.”

Poverty Crime Gun Driven Insecurity Knives Gun Crime Solutions To Poverty

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.”

Humans Philosophy Faces Names Individual Force Driven Aliens Abstract Schemes Metaphysical Theism Deism

Author:Kenny Smith

“Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.”

Ends Reason Lasts Driven Desert Ruling

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[…]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Believe May Said I Can Reason Feelings Joy Force I Believe Wish Clear Greater Alive Return Morality Conviction Convinced Driven Vanity Fallen I Am Alive

Author:Sebastian Faulks

“The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.”

Care Growth Economy Citizens Driven Access Block Health Care Small Business Affordable Entrepreneurial American Economy Affordable Health Care

Author:Paul Gillmor

“At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.”

Pieces Studios Driven One Time

Author:Richard MacDonald

“As an advocate for kids for over twenty years, I have watched things change since I was in school. Thankfully, this book made me face what I intuitively knew was real but pretended wasn't: The youth of our culture have been deeply wounded by our collective neglect and adult-driven self-focus. Young people need adults to understand what they are going through and people to care about them without a personal agenda. This book was very helpful to me, and my attitude toward teens will never be the same.”

“From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Ideas Stories Driven If I Could

Author:Jean M. Auel

“He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.”

Fear Driven Impulse Companion Cowardice Linked Remorse Verge Disclosure

Book:The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

“Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.”

May Hard Tasks Driven Thee

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.”

Ifs Left My Own Crazy Driven Generous Girlfriend Devices Mum

Author:Louis Tomlinson

“Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Television Treats Entertainment Driven Treated Need You

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.”

Thinking Past Leader Ego Mass Tired Driven

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.”

Self Critical Driven Perfectionist

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.”

Lasts Powerful Race Steps West Driven Spots Certainty Permanent Maintaining Abode Enterprising

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.”

Mind Has Beens Country Poor Driven Invisible Our Country Our Society Mainstream

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.”

Men Moments Life Is Enemy Wife Military Daughter Lays Driven Breasts Village Weeping Herds Wife And Daughter

Author:Genghis Khan

“A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.”

Art Desire Artist Inspiring Driven Never Ending True Artists

Author:Lee Hammond

“Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.”

Believe Pride Driven Trust In God Gospel Commitment To God Intimacy With God

Author:Timothy Keller

“Nothing steals God's glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear”

Worry Glory Driven Believer Stealing

Author:Louie Giglio

“Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.”

Persons Earth Guy Driven Sense Of Humor Down To Earth I Am Pretty

Author:Kreayshawn

“Make sure you comfort everybody, because you have so much power. The influence you do have, make sure you use that for the right things that's going to propel you, and propel your company. It's not always about making profit. I know y'all know how to make profit, and I know that's what it's about! But I'm very happy that I can come here and tell you I'm someone that has not been driven by the profit. You can succeed with the people.”

People Knows I Can Use Company Know How Influence Comfort Succeed Profit Driven Right Thing Very Happy

Author:Lil B

“As a theatrical troupe, the Muppets haven't exactly been AWOL these past dozen years; the gang rocked YouTube in 2009 with their kick-ass rendition of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' But they've certainly been lying low while our twitchy, tweet-y times have favored snarkier, more air-quote-driven entertainment, even from puppets. And in a way, that showbiz hiatus has worked in favor of The Muppets. For adults, the movie's gentle, clever, unironic humor feels freshly, trendily retro now, enhanced by laughs provided in cameos from a very up-to-date roster of stars.”

“Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.”

Ifs Needs Soul Politics Given Sleep Pay Lord Praying Taxes Lays Driven Destroyed My Soul I Pray Collectors Abracadabra

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.”

Needs Believe Order Politics I Believe Driven Eras Progressive Moderates

Author:Barack Obama

“He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions.”

“Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.”

Writing Kind Long Character Stories Particular Driven Short Story Story Writers

Author:Nell Freudenberger