Pulling Quotes - Page 3

• The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Weed, Thinking, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

  George MacDonald

  Eye, Men, Evil

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.1453, e-artnow

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• Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse?

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Christmas, Running

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• I lifted onto my toes, put my hands aroung his neck, and pulled him down. When our lips met, that first jolt... It was everything I hadn't felt with Simon, everything I wanted to feel. His hands went around my waist, pulling me closer--

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hands, Toes, Firsts

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• It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

  Ally Carter

  Feet, Stories, Shooting

  Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink.

  Clive Barker

  Art, Hurt, Writing

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• Ella, just stay here. Stay safe." "Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson." "What?" Percy said. "Oh... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary—" "ROOOF." "How do you feel about pulling a chariot?

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Numbers, Safety

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• I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Jobs, Tugging, Use

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• I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth's spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Running, Stars, Fall

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.87, Penguin Books India

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• Jack wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close. He whispered in her ear. “He’s not getting near you again, baby, I promise. No one’s laying a finger on you ever again.

  Julie James

  Baby, Promise, Ears

  Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.156, Penguin

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• The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

  Denis Johnson

  Kissing, First Kiss, World

  Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.27, Granta Books

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• I think that the world that was behind us has gone ahead. We need to run a lot to match that level. So we do not need to calculate. We just need to give it all in. And I have given myself in completely. I've been successful is pulling my entire government in. I believe that India is also committed to moving forward.

  Narendra Modi

  Running, Believe, Moving

  "PM Modi's exclusive interview with Times Now: Full transcript". Interview with Arnab Goswami, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.

  George Harrison

  Want, Conscious, Force

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• The rubber hits the road if Trump somehow turns his sights on Canada, as he has with Mexico, Australia and Germany, and takes some gratuitous comments on Canada's laxity on security or that Canada is not pulling its weight and has to do more in NATO, and so on. At that point, the pressure is on Trudeau politically, both from the media in Canada, from the opposition, maybe from his own party members, to shoot back.

  Michael Kergin

  Party, Sight, Media

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Betrayal, Suicidal, Gun

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think [Donald Trump] does understand that. We talked a great deal about the separation on power and the constitution. And we`re very excited about what he`s doing because what he`s doing is pulling back what we see as unconstitutional executive actions from the past presidents.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, Past, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• To me, smoking pot meant sitting with a newspaper on my legs, rolling the seeds down, pulling the twigs out and finally producing a perfectly cylindrical, absolutely wonderful joint that you either locked at both ends or pinched off, or pinched at one end and left open at the other.

  George Carlin

  Smoking, Rolling, Sitting

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat's tail—you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Cat, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• You're your kid's partner, not the person who's pulling all the strings.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, Partners, Strings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Get Better, Want, Tricks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.

  Jon Stewart

  People, Different, Information

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• Emergency Valve Regulators," she repeated. "So you do know what your doing? "Not really," he said yanking another wire. 'I made up that term to keep you happy. I'm just pulling all the red wires because they're the pretty ones.

  Derek Landy

  Wire, Red, Emergencies

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

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• His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Kissing, Thinking

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• In terms of President Trump, I really do hope that he does accomplish some of the things he said on the campaign trail. If he is willing to make investments in infrastructure, but not on the backs of the middle class and the working class, and put people back to work, that would be a good thing. If he's serious about making Obamacare better, and not pulling the rug out from 20 million Americans who benefit from it, that would be a good thing too.

  Nina Turner

  Class, Obamacare, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• His hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline.

  Tammara Webber

  Hands, Voice, Making Time

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