Driving Quotes - Page 17

• Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

  Antonio Damasio

  Intelligent, Luxury, Outcomes

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• Passion--it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it.

  Mac Anderson

  Fun, Adventure, Passion

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• I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.

  Kim Dotcom

  Average, Car, Germany

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• I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.

  Robert Webb

  Trying, Walks, Ought

  "What I see in the mirror: Robert Webb" by Robert Webb, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.

  Charles Dickens

  Dark, Night, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.482

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• When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Book, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Long Voyage”, p.3, Booklassic

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• So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.

  Upton Sinclair

  Running, Successful, Men

  Upton Sinclair (2007). “Oil!”, p.2, Penguin

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• Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Effort, Listening, Machines

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Ships, Tone

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• Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV and it just changed my whole perspective of driving and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.

  Lauren Lee Smith

  Perspective, Car, Suvs

  "The fruit of Lauren Lee Smith's labour". Interview with Petrina Gentile, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.

  Moss Hart

  Peace, Men, People

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• Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Business, Mirrors

  The Independent Newspaper (UK), August 22, 1997.

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• Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Matter

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• In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation.

  Rick Scarborough

  Christian, Religious, America

  Rick Scarborough (2008). “Enough is Enough”, p.64, Frontline

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• The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Elements, Kevin

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.

  Claude Brown

  Ideas, Soul, Quality

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• I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I'm thinking "What am I going to talk about today?"

  Justin Kirk

  Thinking, Two, Worry

  "Justin Kirk Talks NOBODY WALKS, WEEDS, ANIMAL PRACTICE, MR. MORGAN’S LAST LOVE, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Reading, Dark, Sky

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• I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Lonely, Dark, Car

  Song: Occasionally, Album: Melissa Etheridge

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• The FBI announced today that they are now looking for Osama bin Laden's financial adviser. You think this guy is in demand. How good can he be? his top client is living in a cave and driving a donkey. It doesn't sound like he is getting the best return on his investments to me.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Guy, Sound

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• You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

  Jonathan Evison

  Mirrors, Looks, Gone

  "Author Jonathan Evison on loss, survival and life's epic journeys". Interview with Mary Ann Gwinn, www.seattletimes.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

  Tom Harkin

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• When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

  Ann Voskamp

  Home, Heart, Adversity

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• Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

  Mason Cooley

  Political, Exile, Machismo

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• To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.

  Allan McNish

  Commitment, Night, Focus

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