Pulling Quotes - Page 21

• Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders

  Kevin Keegan

  Very Good, Defenders

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• The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

  Steven Bochco

  Shooting, Kind, Behavior

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  Zakk Wylde

  Two, Wife, Guy

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• Remodeling is like pulling a loose thread on a cheap sweater - the job keeps unraveling.

  Margo Kaufman

  Jobs, Sweaters, Unraveling

  Margo Kaufman (1997). “This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America”, Dell Books

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• With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Window Panes, Space

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

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• Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

  Dennis Rainey

  Weed, Selfishness, Stories

  Dennis Rainey, Barbara Rainey (1995). “Moments Together for Couples: 365 Daily Devotions for Drawing Near to God & One Another”, p.368, Baker Books

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• Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
  
  Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Horse, Half, Habit

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• For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.

  John Green

  Running, Hands, Quiet

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.25, Penguin

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• There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Strong, Real, Artist

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• There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Fire, Soul, World

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• I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch.

  Dar Williams

  Kindness, Honesty, Night

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

  Sue Hubbell

  Suits, Bees, Remember

  Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Differences, Government, Guy

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• Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Roots, Daisies

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• She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

  Anne Stuart

  Hate, Hands, Knives

  Anne Stuart (2012). “Ice Storm”, p.246, Harlequin

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• Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strong, Powerful, Hard Work

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Doctrine, Establishment Clause, Firsts

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• Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Drama, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.147, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Fun

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• So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front,
  Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Causes

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• I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.

  Bill Cowher

  Pride, Sunday, Reality

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• Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

  Tobias Wolff

  Order, Insightful, Stories

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• I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Horse, Wagons, Drivers

  "'I Was Never an Anti-Semite'". articles.latimes.com. March 01, 2000.

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