Tug Of War Quotes

• Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.

  Robert G. Allen

  Dream, War, Heart

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• If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.

  Max Gunther

  Sports, War, Giving

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• I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

  Shel Silverstein

  War, Kissing, Winning

  Shel Silverstein, “Hug O'War”

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• Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

  Sarah Kay

  Life, War, Winning

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• It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

  Deborah Harkness

  War, Two, Impulse

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.158, Penguin

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• Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

  Larry Wall

  War, Computer

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• I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.

  Van Jones

  Country, Real, War

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

  John Turner

  War, Excellence, Democracy

  John Turner's speech at Liberal Party Leadership convention at Ottawa Civic Centre in Ontario, April 5, 1968.

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• I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war

  Shel Silverstein

  War, Play, Hug

  Shel Silverstein, “Hug O'War”

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• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  Jodie Foster

  War, Being Alone, Interesting

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• As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

  Aretha Franklin

  Letting Go, War, Parent

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• That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

  Zoe Whittall

  War, Creativity, Imagination

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• I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.

  Lauren Oliver

  War, Thinking, Feelings

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• After a few (or many) bad relationships, its so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist its not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. Its as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, Ill never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.

  Arielle Ford

  Soulmate, Falling In Love, Giving Up

  Arielle Ford (2009). “The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  War, Government, Pie

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.

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• I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's a tug-of-war between two voices: the one who knows she can and the one who's scared she can't.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  War, Two, Voice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.

  Robert E. Haebel

  War, Army, Marine

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• One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

  Uma Thurman

  War, Fighting, Empathy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.

  Jill Stein

  War, Fda, Agency

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.

  Roz Savage

  War, Views, Opposites

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• WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

  Larry McMurtry

  War, Blue, Pigs

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

  Lauren Groff

  War, Community, Half

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Running, Memories

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• There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.

  Kehinde Wiley

  War, America, Imagine

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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