Pulling Quotes - Page 22

• There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Strong, Real, Artist

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• Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Drama, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.147, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Doctrine, Establishment Clause, Firsts

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• In all the good Greek of Plato
  I lack my roastbeef and potato.
  
  A better man was Aristotle,
  Pulling steady on the bottle.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings.

  Charlton Laird

  Moving, Two, Body

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• Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

  Roddy Piper

  Spiritual, Fighting, Acting

  "Rowdy Roddy Piper Lends his Voce to Green Lantern: Emerald Knights". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. May 5, 2011.

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• When anything is easy, it becomes very monotonous for me. But, if I can find something that is really going to take all of my body and all of my mind to really even come close to pulling off, that sounds like fun.

  Dane DeHaan

  Fun, Mind, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

  Charles Haddon

  Lying, Boots, World

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• If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Reality, Names

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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• Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

  Steven Pressfield

  Years, Giving, Support

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.57, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

  Adi Da

  Luck, Weight, Pushing

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• Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Husband, Men, Wife

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 183, 1958.

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• Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Teenage, Names, Feelings

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• There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «Where are you going?» and the first man replies, «I don't know! Ask the horse!» This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless.

  Nhat Hanh

  Horse, Men, Circles

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.24, Harmony

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• I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

  Morris Chestnut

  Teeth, Kind, Sometimes

  "Morris Chestnut "Not Easily Broken". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.

  Mel Gibson

  Fall, Doors, People

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• There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you’re insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, “Hey, I’m a pretty smart guy and I’m pulling it together …”

  Charlie Day

  Smart, Insecure, Men

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Home, Doors

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.

  Andy Andrews

  Weed, Dollars, Needs

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Drive over to the nearest airport, and enroll in flight classes. You will experience the joy of freedom in the air above, as you study the mechanics of how this is made possible by understanding the construction, the laws of motion, the air that can provide lift when it is moved by propulsion through the air, and stay above the gravity pulling the airplane back down to earth.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Airplane, Law, Class

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• I like the team effort of everyone pulling together to make one good project.

  Gregg Sulkin

  Team, Effort, Together

  "Interview – Gregg Sulkin returns in Wizards of Waverly Place". Jewish News Interview, jewishnews.timesofisrael.com. May 22, 2013.

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• You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.

  Antony Hegarty

  Mean, Expectations, Needs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound.

  Ben Burtt

  Movie, Creating, House

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

  Cate Marvin

  Important, Landscape, Imagery

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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