(389 quotes found)
“People are more easily led than driven.”
David Harold Fink
“Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.”
Zach Braff
“We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game,”
Zinedine Zidane
“Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.”
Kingsley Amis
“I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.”
Barbara Streisand
“The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.”
Charley Reese
“Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.”
Will Rogers
“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”
Tallulah Bankhead
“I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go.”
Abraham Lincoln
