Driving Quotes - Page 25

• The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Problem, Authority, Force

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.

  Frances Trollope

  Children, Honesty, Powerful

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• I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Police, Motorcycle, Racing

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2015). “On My Own: The Years Since The White House”, p.135, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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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• 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 started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Passion, Writing, Desire

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Are you driving with your eyes open? Or are you, like, using "the force"?

  Eddie Murphy

  Eye, Force

  "Beverly Hills Cop II". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Taken, Causes, Bigs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!

  Richard Simmons

  Home, Giving, Parent

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

  Chris Hardwick

  Writing, Ideas, Waiting In Line

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

  John Updike

  Race, Car, Chance

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

  Frank Buckles

  Jobs, Ambulance, Severe

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• The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are:
  You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing.
  I can easily convince other people that you're the one who is messed up.
  As long as I'm calm, you can't call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel.
  I know exactly how to get under your skin.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Attitude, Crazy, Long

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.85, Penguin

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• Whenever I hear an American say Aussies drive on the 'wrong side of the road,' I just lose it. You ever think about how those people grew up driving on the 'wrong side of the road,' watched a lot of people get hurt on the 'wrong side of the road,' die on the 'wrong side of the road,' while other people cheered from the 'right side of the road'? Australia has a thing called Highway Fights, so it's touchy.

  Russell Crowe

  Hurt, Fighting, Thinking

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• Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

  Laurie Holden

  Home, Community, Tree

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Secret, Sound, Pupils

  The Scouter Magazine, January 1912.

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• Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Passion, Mean, Climbing

  "Andy Serkis Interview – Talks THE HOBBIT, TINTIN, BURKE & HARE and SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 16, 2010.

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• The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Saving, May

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Player, Mvp

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• Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

  Colleen Hanabusa

  School, Museums, Drs

  "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jesus, Children, Wife

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• Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

  Deb Caletti

  Snow, Worry, Hills

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• If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

  Mario Andretti

  Driving Fast, Enough, Feels

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• Most organizations fail in driving change.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, Failing

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• I'd say it [success in NASCAR] is probably 50% car, 30% driver and 20% luck. When it comes to the driving, if the driver doesn't do his part, then it's just kind of like multiplying a negative times a positive: The end result is going to be a negative.

  John Wes Townley

  Car, Luck, Negative

  Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.usatoday.com. July 30, 2013.

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