Driving Away Quotes

• What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye   Travel   Crazy  

  "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, (Ch. 8), 1957.

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• The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

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  Epicurus

  Drinking   Sea   Dancing  

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• Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

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  Fred Hoyle

  Inspirational   Funny   Space  

  1979 Quoted in the Observer,'Sayings of the Week', 9 Sep.

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• Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

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  Jeremy Taylor

  Space   Soul   Lust  

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• Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away.

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  Graham Greene

  Light   Opposites   Clothes  

  "Books that make you cry: share your weepiest moments" by Moira Redmond, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2014.

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• It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

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  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye   Travel   Crazy  

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.237, Penguin

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• I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

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  Lisa Kleypas

  Love You   Receiving Love   Skills  

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.11, St. Martin's Press

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• The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

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  John Calvin

  Mean   Sheep   Two  

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To Timothy, Titus And Philemon (Annotated Edition)”, p.262, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

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  Jane Austen

  Firsts   Driving   Wonder  

  Jane Austen (2013). “Pride and Prejudice: The Story of Elizabeth Bennet and Her Dealing with Issues of Manners, Upbringing, Morality, Education and Marriage in the Society of the Landed Gentry of Early 19th-Century England (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.51, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Would Be   Monkeys   Driving  

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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