Pulling Quotes - Page 19

• I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

  Richard Siken

  Giving, Monsters, Burning

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• I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.

  Jamie McGuire

  Beautiful, Selfish, Intelligent

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.

  James Bertolino

  Dream, Night, Love Is

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• Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

  Henry George

  Fighting, Water, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.358, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.

  Van Jones

  Sky, Reap, Ifs

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

  Nicole Richie

  Girl, Tears, Magazines

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• I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

  Danica Patrick

  Husband, Yoga, Home

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• If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

  Clive Owen

  People, Important, Age

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• In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Strong, Cowboy, People

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• And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

  Alanis Morissette

  Who I Am, People, Purpose

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Artist, People, Connections

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• So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

  Lindsay Lohan

  People, Giving, Reason

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• If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.

  Denis Leary

  Sorry, Rights, Government

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• I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Writing, Problem, Hills

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• Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

  Wayne Rooney

  Country, Kids, Buzz

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• Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Earth, Poverty

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• The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves.

  Dwight Schultz

  New York, Thinking, Opposites

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• But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Joints, Venture

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• Mum’s a musician. She plays piano and has a beautiful voice, so she understands the creative need. Mum lights up when she sees me. Her cheeks go pink – she’s all over me, pulling my hair, pinching my cheeks.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Beautiful, Play, Voice

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• A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Powerful, Athlete

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• Every once in a while we remember that life is short, and to appreciate the time with your friends and family, and to be open to have beautiful exciting moments in your days and stop worrying about what's pulling you down.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Beautiful, Life Is Short, Appreciate

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• I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

  Martha Smith

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

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• You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

  Gene Simmons

  Legs, Because I Can, Knows

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, (NRP), February 4, 2002.

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• Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Independent, One Direction, Oxen

  "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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