Driven Quotes

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
W. C. Fields

Home, Worry, Drink

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Bob Dylan

Stand, Breathing, Touring

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
Mitt Romney

Life, Children, Night

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
Mitt Romney

Government, America, Check

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
Mitt Romney

Government, Turn, Economy

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
Gordon Ramsay

Family, Hate, Two

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Nagarjuna

Together, Down, Move

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal

End, Within, Sail

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, May, Seek

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes

Business, Drive

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus

Another, Overcome, Habit

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser

Love, Power, Freedom

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Augustine of Hippo

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton

Money, Beautiful, Artist

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Lucretius

Religion, Men, Wickedness

I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono

Power, Car, Poor

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden

Cannot, Return, Perhaps

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Job, Career, Tell

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair

Evil, Friends, Here

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
Noam Chomsky

Call, Bible, False

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
Tori Amos

Idea, Characters, Musical

The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Powerful, Between

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
Liam Neeson

Someone, Getting, Computer

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Great, Parents, Country

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.
John Cleese

Happy, After, Become

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!
Ryan Seacrest

Ego, Working, Everyone

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr

Women, Find, Wish

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