Tugging Quotes

• All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Selfish, People

  'The Conduct of Life' (1860) 'Considerations by the way'

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• Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thinking

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• And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

  Edith Wharton

  Marriage, Pain, Ties

  "The letters of Edith Wharton".

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Sympathy, Heart, Two

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• When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last.

  Barbara Johnson

  Sleep, Home, Giving

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.

  John Muir

  Inspiring, Connected, Interconnection

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• If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

  Diana Loomans

  Running, Stars, Children

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• And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.

  J. L. Carr

  Pain, Heart, Voice

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• It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Embroidery, Habit

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

  Karen Russell

  Wall, Party, Heart

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Aug 08, 2013

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• Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

  George Washington

  Ruins, Thirteen, Sovereignty

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.208

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• I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

  Isaac Marion

  Lips, Feels, Pleasant

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Hands, Worry, Soul

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1963). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• Your Majesty— Tugging my ear. Whenever.

  Kiera Cass

  Ears, Majesty

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• Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later." ~Chloe to Dageus.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Chloe, Said, Sleeves

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• But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

  Darren Shan

  Art, Thinking, People

  Darren Shan (2011). “Demon Thief (The Demonata, Book 2)”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.

  Sarah Waters

  Hurt, Lying, Heart

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.153, Penguin

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• Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better than other dogs. They are a real good natured. They’re also real calm and sometimes when working with autistic children that’s probably more popular dog breed - now there are different ways to use service animals.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Children, Real

  Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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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, Use, Pieces

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• And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Night, Wind, Clothes

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). “Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.189, Faber & Faber

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• Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Home, Air, Hands

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• - You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Men, Self

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• You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.

  Neal Shusterman

  Ankles, May, Feels

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air and your socks are a tough ripe, to put it mildly." Oh, sorry!" said Horace, tugging the riding boot back on over his sock. Now that Halt mentioned it, he was aware of a rather strong odor in the room.

  John Flanagan

  Strong, Sorry, Thinking

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