Quotes of: Driving-force Keyword

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

Drawing On The Powers Of Heaven

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Death on the Nile

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Eleven Minutes

The cruelest thing you can do to someone is force them to hurt alone

The Enchantress Returns

Destiny doesn't ask you if you want it Syn, it just forces it into your lap and deal with it. -RYDER

Fighting Destiny

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Of Human Bondage

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

Bleeds My Desire

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

The Birds

I've definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics - I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That's something that comes with age.

Brandon Flowers

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

John Abizaid

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

James Prescott Joule

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Janis Karpinski

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

William Shenstone

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

David Chipperfield

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Amiri Baraka

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

David Whyte

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II