Pulling Quotes - Page 22

• When I look at the kids training today... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

  Michelle Kwan

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Fall

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• Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Horse, Fear

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• Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Country, Moving, Love You

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• I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Love, Crush, Hair

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• You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.

  Steven Wilson

  Time, Thumbs, May

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• The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Men, Wind

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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• You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."

  Tina Fey

  Mother, Transition, Noses

  "Tina Fey Reveals All (And Then Some) In 'Bossypants'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 13, 2011.

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• As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Moving, Writing

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• There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

  Max Beerbohm

  Dark, Race, Spirit

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1960). “And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland”

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• When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue; not by wire pulling and demagoguery; not by the arts of popularity; not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency; but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country; by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Teacher, Courage

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• I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

  Kate Middleton

  Work, Thinking, Long

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• The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Passion, Balance, Path

  "The Reality Dysfunction". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, October 8, 2008.

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• In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

  Dave Eggers

  Stupid, Light, People

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.221, Vintage

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• And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

  Hart Crane

  Beautiful, Journey, Hands

  Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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• 'I am' is nothing but another name for the ego. Now you will be getting into trouble. If the ego is convinced that the only way is to drop the ego, then who is going to drop whom? And how? It will be like pulling yourself up by your own shoestrings. You will look just silly. Watch each word that you use. 'I am' is nothing but the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Silly, Names, Ego

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• I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Together, Comfort, Accessories

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• Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

  Jon Foreman

  Together, Gravity, Ifs

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• The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

  Robertson Davies

  Weed, Book, Mind

  Robertson Davies (2002). “For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies”, Penguin Group USA

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• Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

  Rick Yancey

  Kids, Games, Wings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.133, Penguin

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• I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.

  Chad Kroeger

  Beer, Mouths, Cases

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• There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.

  Joichi Ito

  Needs, Resources

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• Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

  Douglas Bader

  Strong, Wings, Needs

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.22, Pen and Sword

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• If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Self Esteem, Unfortunate, Standing

  Harry Stack Sullivan (2003). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.242, Psychology Press

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• This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Roulette, Bullets

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• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

  Kofi Annan

  Hope, Country, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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