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“... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.”

“I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.”

Sex Civilization Ugly Driven Dirty Proportion Humankind Nudity Underworld

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.”

Moments Past Crime Return Scene Victim Curiosity Driven Criminals That Moment Not Alone

Author:Elie Wiesel

“At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.”

Firsts Has Beens Ends Facts Half Century Military Historical Driven Flying Flight Destructive Significance Engines Starks Aircraft Historical Significance

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.”

Heart Stills Driven Glorious Breasts Cherish Unrequited Love Adore Alas Prudence Unrequited

Book:The Poems of Goethe

Source: The Poems of Goethe

“Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.”

Men Genius Passionate Driven Outrageous Merchants Seductive

Author:Glenn Close

“So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.”

Long Strong Strength Wall Weak Driven Weak Will

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.”

Activity Driven

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”

Men Driven Sheep Flocks

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.”

Ifs Looks May Moments Seems Might Our Lives Objects Despair Finals Driven Separation

Book:On the contrary

Source: On the contrary

“The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.”

“I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.”

Home Worry Comedy Drink Driven New Year New Years Resolution

Author:W. C. Fields

“I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.”

Bigs School Guy Poor High School Let Me Driven Farms Uncles Truck Back And Forth No Money Rigs

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.”

Want Littles Reality Jobs Opportunity Adventure Driven Tails Castles Detectives Loving Life Immature Homicide Actually Living

Author:Nathan Fillion

“We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.”

Lasts Sacrifice Driven Inevitable Extremity

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.”

War Helping Poor Rich Taxes Areas Driven Billions Administration Code Unnecessary Get Rich Unnecessary War

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Kind Feelings Pain Remember Musician Busy Driven Insane Painter Get Up Demon Fury Rotten Too Busy Hangover

Author:William Faulkner

“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”

Seems Worst Horror Mass Driven Contemporary Features Attractive Obsessed Comparison Peculiar Tribute Modernism Bourgeoisie Contemporary Life

Author:Christopher Lasch

“If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.”

Ifs Jobs Hours Effort Pay Havens Workers Driven Streams Sail Scourge

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.”

Ifs Believe Stills Would Be Values Parent Alive Proud Driven Soccer

Author:Alex Ferguson

“Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.”

Men Creatures Driven

Author:Samuel Daniel

“I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.”

Actresses Driven

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.”

Thinking World Kind Two Whole Natural Movement Ought Driven Senses Two Things Embarrassment Indecision Perplexity

Book:Miss Marjoribanks

Source: Miss Marjoribanks

“In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.”

Ifs Ends Life Is Turns Individual Wealth Responsibility Media Property Driven Private Life Private Property Spectacles

Author:Terry Eagleton

“The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.”

People World Used Energy Sound Leadership Numbers Leader Amount Smart Passionate Driven Enormous Managers Jargon

Author:John Welch

“As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.”

People Should Remember Desire Passion Sports Special Fame Fortune Athlete Driven You Choose Something Special

Author:Katarina Witt

“The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.”

Years Mean Different Happens Desire Five Possibility Years Ago Driven Screens Things Happen Five Years Cgi

Author:Tom Hanks

“Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.”

Song Process Driven Songwriting High Road

Author:Billy Gibbons

“Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.”

People Want Has Beens Views Offers Affair Extremes Driven Tone Marketplace Public Affairs

Author:David Frum

“We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.”

Matter Happens Courses Games Natural No Matter What Sticks Driven

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.”

Believe I Believe Driven Always Believe Very Deep

Author:Alastair Campbell

“I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.”

I Can Hate Losing I Hate Driven Ruthless

Author:Alastair Campbell

“I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.”

Believe Heart I Believe Europe International Driven Reform Britain

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.”

People Years Hate Wealth Poverty Rich Economic Truth Is Taxes Driven Desperate Bizarre Exile Rich People Homeland Migrants Paying Taxes

Author:Clint Black

“I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.”

World Writing Imagination Driven Curious Plus New Things Vivid Vivid Imagination

Author:David Baldacci

“You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.”

Years Home Running Break Week Cost Members Six Dinner Driven Campaigns Breakfast Lunch Senate Uncommon Fundraising Campaigning Fundraiser

Author:Evan Bayh

“Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.”

May Character Stories Fiction Rich Crime Harder Driven Making Money Plot Crime Fiction

Author:Linwood Barclay

“To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.”

Writing Different Play Song Process Rooms Creative Stage Ego Sitting Musical Driven Likes Different Place Writing Songs

Author:Chris Cornell

“I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.”

Ideas Young Structure Driven Ideology

Author:Bill Ayers

“Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.”

People Knows Wells Journey Crazy Type Hip Hop Driven Hips Hops Drive Me Crazy

Author:Patrick Carney

“The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.”

Feels Challenges Lines Achieve Internet Bed Bottom Driven Operations Hospitals Bottom Line Complication Health Challenges

Author:Pete Cashmore

“I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.”

Stars Chance Break Television Materials Tvs Industry Driven Movie Industry Television Industry

Author:Stephen Chbosky

“Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.”

Force Economic Media Driven

Author:Iris Chang

“So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.”

World Firsts Book Real Feelings Jobs Felt Answers Entertainment Driven Novelists Logical Desperation Real Feelings

Author:Lee Child

“Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.”

Men Feels Kind Two Character Stories He Man Quiet Focused Driven Two Sisters Lizzy

Author:Lizzy Caplan

“Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.”

Acting Design Driven

Author:Sofia Coppola

“The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.”

Long Has Beens Growth Economy Skills Weakness Standing Overcoming Investment Debt Spending Driven Productivity Consumers Britain Binge Unbalanced

Author:Vince Cable

“Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.”

Doe Made Technology Cutting Easier Music Is Machines Currents Studios Driven Made It Manipulate

Author:Vivian Campbell

“I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!”

Thinking Knows Character Driven Handle Usa Programming Viewers

Author:Tim DeKay

“Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.”

People Littles Bigs America Fighting Force Revolution Army Slave Driven North America Chunks Haiti Little Money

Author:Edwidge Danticat

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