"Driving force" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sister Carrie for insight or accuracy or charm. His partiality may perhaps be ascribed to his strong inclination toward the life of art, through which his 'Genius' moves, half hero and half picaro. Witla remains mediocre enough in all but his sexual unscrupulousness, but he is impelled by a driving force more or less like those forces which impel Cowperwood. The will to wealth, the will to love, the will to art—Mr. Dreiser conceives them all as blind energies with no goal except self-realization. So conceiving them he tends to see them as less conditioned ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren
... seeking a path onward; but he discovered none. Meantime, the parts of the pack had fallen into easier positions; the noise of crunching, as the one ground against the other, had somewhat abated. The ice continued its course outward, under the driving force of the wind, but the pressure was relieved. The pans fell away from one another. Lakes and lanes of water opened up. The pan upon which Bagg chanced to find himself in the great break-up soon floated free. There was ...
— Billy Topsail & Company - A Story for Boys • Norman Duncan
... raised his ship from the Asteroid Moira when he saw the small planetoid lurch suddenly, bounding off its orbit at almost a right angle. The sudden combined driving force of all the rockets within the cave had sent it hurtling away like ...
— The Beast of Space • F.E. Hardart
... of the airman brings about the desired end very effectively. It deprives the driving force of its controlling hand; The aeroplane becomes like a ship without a rudder: a vessel whose helmsman has been shot down. It is unmanageable, and likely to become the sport of the element in which it moves. It is for this reason that aviators have ...
— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot
... and best organization. It has enough energy, enough driving force, to better conditions for all if it could be properly applied; but being an exceedingly respectable institution it has been rather shy of changes, and so has found it hard to adapt itself to new conditions. It has clung to shadows after the substance has departed; and even holds to the old phraseology ...
— The Next of Kin - Those who Wait and Wonder • Nellie L. McClung
... a new kind of despair had taken hold of me. It was no longer the paralysing despair but the despair that has a driving force in it. ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine |
