Pulling Quotes - Page 8

• The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

  Anthony Trollope

  Opponents, Politician, Pleasure

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.230, 谷月社

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• I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

  Theodore Roethke

  Mean, Order, Broken

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.73, Anchor

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• People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, People, Confusion

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.185, Hackett Publishing

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• We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

  Anne Lamott

  Teeth, Tape, Pouring

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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• Dames are always pulling a switch on you.

  Dana Andrews

  Dames

  "Fictional character: Mark McPherson". "Laura", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

  Samuel Smiles

  Self, Class, People

  1859 Self-Help, ch.10.

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• I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.

  Bertrand Russell

  Home, Mean, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled you down, you big, sweet, magnificent, young, potential artists. They have pulled you down so far that you are on the verge of destruction. Only you don't know it because you want to be a success

  Stella Adler

  Sweet, Successful, Artist

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.15, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Nature, Creating

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

  Mike White

  Smart, Writing, People

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• I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

  Gemma Ward

  Thinking, People, Pulling Away

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• With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

  Paullina Simons

  Writing, Mean, Forget You

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• If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

  Michael Shannon

  Believe, Sky, Principles

  "Michael Shannon: 'I'm not trying to exorcise any demons'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Long, Trying, Teeth

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• When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Hair, People

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• I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

  Nicole Richie

  Gone, Bigs, Deals

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• Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

  Amy Ryan

  Couple, Pulling Away, Stories

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• Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fighting, Church

  Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

  Curt Schilling

  Team, Successful, Guy

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the burning of heretics — Muslims in particular. Now, of course, I am not accusing the Attorney General of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases). But one does get the sense these days that the old Spaniard's spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice.

  Walter Cronkite

  Home, Law, People

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• We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.

  John Hancock

  Together, Different, Way

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• I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Feelings, Olympics, Emptiness

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• I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Regret, Should Have, Triggers

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• These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a lot with me, as an instructor, that they might not normally share with other people because they are young artists and they need a platform for pulling that stuff out.

  Clinton D. Powell

  Kids, Writing, Artist

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• Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Travel, Pain, Eye

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