Puppets Quotes

• We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Desire, Subconscious

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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• It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Powerful, Miraculous

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.165, Modern Library

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• We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Fate, Destiny, Hands

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wind, Chance, Tics

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• A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

  Sam Harris

  Long, Strings

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• I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

  Nina Conti

  Stage, Humans, My Own

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• We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Powerful, Literature, Force

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• You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything
  You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

  Aaron Tippin

  Fall, Men, Strings

  Song: You've Got To Stand For Something, Album: You've Got to Stand for Something, 1991

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• So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Fate, Creatures

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• It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

  Stanley Milgram

  Perception, May, Firsts

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

  Guy Davenport

  Strings, Stage, Manipulate

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• I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Philosophy, Men, Liberty

  Song: The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall, Album: The Harder They Come, 1972

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• Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Young Unicorns”, p.202, Macmillan

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• Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Fate, Desire, Scar

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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• We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Wall, Moving, Waiting

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.9, Luigi Pirandello

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• Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

  Nydia Velazquez

  Let Me

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• I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Eye, Broken, Fallen

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.44, Arcade Publishing

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• We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

  Alan Moore

  Strings

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• The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

  Dave Matthews

  World, Wonderful, Santa Claus

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• It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving Up, Soul, Return

  "The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

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• Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Parting, Can Do

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• For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Hands, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.219, Pan Macmillan

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• I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
  I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
  Each time I find myself flat on my face
  I pick myself up and get back in the race

  Frank Sinatra

  Kings, Race, Pirate

  Song: That's Life, Album: That's Life

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• What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Life, Believe, Dying

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• Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

  Peter L. Berger

  Lying, Steps, Stopping

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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