Propelled Quotes

#1. In the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.

Hermann Broch

#2. My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

Howard Gardner

#3. I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography - we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it'll be played.

Robert Loggia

#4. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

Walter Isaacson

#5. People have mentioned, 'Maybe you should try to be more sexy. Look at how this butt stuff propelled this person to the top of the chart; it's amazing!' And I'm like, 'What if I really want to sing something to people?' I speak my mind. I want to be that person people feel they can listen to.

Kiesza

#6. But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#7. One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

Craig Venter

#8. The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.

Philip Guedalla

#9. I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

Tom Rachman

#10. I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to shape a life, and create a literature, that was not a lie.

Dorothy Allison

#11. A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#12. I was consumed by some kind of unholy, indignant rage that propelled me through the confrontation to its successful conclusion - and out the other side into the cool, calm lagoon of reflective dread known as the 'what the fuck have I just done?' feeling.

Nick Spalding

#13. So, you propel rocks at me! You'll be very sorry you ever propelled a rock at me, human.

Katherine Applegate

#14. I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

Leona Lewis

#15. The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

Koichi Tanaka

#16. Folding chairs were flying through the air as if propelled by dozens of invisible Bobby Knights.

David Wong

#17. It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Francis Fukuyama

#18. The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Randy Schekman

#19. The dream is yours ... why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within.

Steve Maraboli

#20. Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me ... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

Nick Clegg

#21. The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations.

Reinhard Bonnke

#22. You're going to need a dann big can of big spray! Or maybe a rocket-propelled grenade. I have one in the garage, you want it?

Kevin Hearne

#23. He smirked and that was it. I propelled myself forward and into his arms, our mouths instantly locking in a frenzied kiss, my hands grasping his collar, his shirt, his hair, his anything.

Jennifer DeLucy

#24. Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

Lady Bird Johnson

#25. Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.

Gary Weiss

#26. Habit, in fact, was what propelled his life forward. Though he no longer believed in a perfect community, nor felt the warmth of chemistry between people.

Haruki Murakami

#27. I believe in previous lives and the Muse - and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being by their own imperative to be born, via the offices of those willing servants of discipline, imagination and inspiration whom we call artists.

Steven Pressfield

#28. Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

Bernard Lown

#29. I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.

Colin Farrell

#30. Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. Propelled by nothing more than a drab sense of duty not to die if she didn't have to, Fire turned [...]

Kristin Cashore

#32. Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

Jim Rowe

#33. Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.

Ron Paul

#34. That a starship could be built, that it could be propelled by laser beams, that humanity could reach the stars; this idea appeared to have been an intoxicant, to people around Saturn and on Earth in particular.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#35. We had learned from the killing of a Reuters photographer on the balcony of the Palestine Hotel that a long lens could be mistaken for a rocket-propelled grenade.

Lynsey Addario

#36. Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Stephen King

#37. Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.

Rick Riordan

#38. My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

#39. I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

Earl Scruggs

#40. America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism,
not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that
gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled
ice cream.

Marisha Pessl

#41. She doesn't even tell me it'll be okay when every single ounce of whatever was left inside my chest is propelled out of me the moment I realize that the very best part of me is dead.

Colleen Hoover

#42. Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.

Niall Ferguson

#43. I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books

Nina Kuscsik

#44. Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

Robert A. Heinlein

#45. The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck

#46. We are propelled past loss and grief by the force of our desires.

Marty Rubin

#47. I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.

Todd Haynes

#48. But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#49. All people like to be praised as it boosts their self-esteem, keeps them motivated and happy but it also pushes them into the abyss of sham, which is propelled by hypocrisy and sycophancy.

Balroop Singh

#50. Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness? Much

Randy Alcorn

#51. I was done with wrestling and I was teaching with competition behind me. It was that experience that gave me confidence and propelled me to fight.

Charlie Brenneman

#52. I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.

Marlon Brando

#53. look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion - that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.

Erik Larson

#54. The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Nikola Tesla

#55. All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

Shia Labeouf

#56. Is it that when these events are in chronological order they are not propelled forward by cause and effect, by need and satisfaction, they do not spring ahead with their own energy but are simply dragged forward by the passage of time?

Lydia Davis

#57. Your life, sir, is propelled
By a dream of the fear of having nightmares; your love
Is the fear of being alone; your world's history
The fear of a possible leap by a possible antagonist
Out of a possible shadow, or a not-improbable
Skeleton out of your dead-certain cupboard.

Christopher Fry

#58. Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

Adam Hart-Davis

#59. Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

Holly Near

#60. Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy?

Jasper Fforde

#61. Type 94 Class, more commonly the Type 95 light tanks, and the general purpose medium Type 97s. A self-propelled gun based on the Type 97 was also encountered, and a further ageing medium, the Type 89B, was

Bryan Perrett

#62. It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these new principles were to be brought, and where the awaited trial of the new civilization was to be made.

Chauncey Depew

#63. Amos took a high-caliber automatic that fired self-propelled rounds, recoilless and designed for use in zero g. Old-fashioned slug throwers were more reliable, but in null gravity they were also maneuvering thrusters.

James S.A. Corey

#64. The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

John D'Agata

#65. He propelled himself in and out of me, his hands and hips working in sync to fuck me, not fast, not slow, but hard and deep.

Anonymous

#66. layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#67. Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

Stephen Jay Gould

#68. I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

Alan Menken

#69. I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

Vincente Minnelli

#70. Everything I had to give went to my children, and though I loved them and my husband utterly, the drudgery of the day-to-day made it seem as if not love but coffee, my Toyota and sheer logistics were what propelled me through life.

Marcia DeSanctis

#71. Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

Denis Waitley

#72. The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain's machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul.

Dan Groat

#73. She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.

Lisi Harrison

#74. I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.

Neil Armstrong

#75. Earlier, I stepped on a squid that had propelled itself over the bulwarks! (Its eyes & beak reminded me of my father-in-law.)

David Mitchell

#76. Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

May Sarton

#77. That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord's youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father's empire.

Steve Erickson

#78. Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

Adam Braun

#79. No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.

Harrison Salisbury

#80. No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up to the evolutionary ladder.

Terry Pratchett

#81. I tried to sketch but couldn't. When I started to draw, the pencil moved by itself, propelled by something hideous that lived inside of me.

Ruta Sepetys

#82. Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

Walter Bagehot

#83. Especially she dreaded the isolation of the swimmer, amid propelled and splashing figures yet she was isolated, always one isolated in the water where thoughts await like froth on the surface of the water that smelled like chemicals.

Joyce Carol Oates

#84. All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Angela Lansbury

#85. A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#86. There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

David Byrne

#87. I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

Sheryl Crow

#88. It is a thought that has propelled me forward for so long it is no longer a thought, really. It's closer to a callous, something I've leaned on for too many hours.

Matthew Callan

#89. Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.

George F. Will

#90. A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

Alexander Calder

#91. I am self-propelled; fueled from within. I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm not attached to them. I learned a long time ago that if I give them the power to feed me, I also give them the power to starve me.

Steve Maraboli

#92. I think there's an underlying insecurity to Bush with a rather classical genesis - namely his being the eldest son of a famous father. I think this has propelled his need to be distinctive, to do big things.

Robert Draper

#93. Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

Katharine Tynan

#94. We are propelled through life by the force of our desires.

Marty Rubin

#95. This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

Elizabeth Moon

#96. If.
'If' always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because 'if' depended so much on keeping my wits about me. I couldn't properly sense things if I was distracted. 'If' demanded my full presence and participation in 'now.
'If', as much as it scared me, also kept me sane.

Ransom Riggs

#97. The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled by greed.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#98. Robert Whitehead built the first self-propelled torpedo.

Jeff Edwards

#99. I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

Marco Rubio

#100. Think before you speak. Take a deep breath, people suggested. Count to ten. Count sheep. Oh, wait, that was for sleeping. Even in her own head, her tongue ran ahead of her brain. It propelled her into all sorts of absurd situations. Elopements. Scandals. This.

Lauren Willig