Pulling Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

  Laurel Lea

  Horse, Execution, Planning

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• You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

  Zac Hanson

  People, Different, May

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

  John Hancock

  Together, Different, Way

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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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• Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Song, Acceptance

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.606, e-artnow

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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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• 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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• One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

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• So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Together, Path Of Love

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• Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.

  Lisa Loeb

  Expression, Taffy, Sometimes

  Song: Taffy, Album: Tails

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• I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

  Ricky Gervais

  Dressing Up, Faces, Comedy

  "Ricky Gervais goes to Springfield". Interview with Brian Viner, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2006.

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• For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  New Year, Morning, Holiday

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• Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stopping, Flesh, Way

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VI, 28,

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• I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dirty, Boys

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• Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Thinking, Hair

  Source: collider.com

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• Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

  Antoni Tapies

  Reality, Creating, People

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 25), 2004.

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• The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hands, Parent, Trying

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.34, Booklassic

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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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