Pulling Quotes - Page 8

• Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

  Ann Patchett

  Mouths, Virtue, Horrible

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. “What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” “Nothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.

  Amanda Hocking

  Doing You, Doe, Married

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.549, Pan Macmillan

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• Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm following you with my lights flashing, and whoever's driving isn't pulling over." "Let him go," Claire said. "Trust me. You aren't going to get him to stop." "Oh, God. It's Myrnin, isn't it?" "Tell that police lady to stop chasing me," Myrnin said, annoyed, from the front seat. "Really, I'm not THAT bad at this.

  Rachel Caine

  Light, Car, Annoyed

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• I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81)

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Numbness, Wish, Despair

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Oct 29, 2012

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• As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket".

  Julia Quinn

  Eye, Hands, Voice

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• and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.

  Annie Proulx

  Distance, Hands, Opposites

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.

  Henry Rollins

  Sorry, Pain, Loneliness

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• Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Lying, Heart

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• He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

  Steig Larsson

  Eggshells, Walking, Load

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• But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

  John Green

  Rocks, Sea, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.170, Penguin UK

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• Jack jumped off the couch, pulling his shirt back on. "Next time,if you'd like, I'll just come without one," he said,grinning at me.

  Kiersten White

  Next, Shirts, Grinning

  Kiersten White (2012). “Supernaturally (Paranormalcy, Book 2)”, p.33, HarperCollins UK

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• Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Onward And Upward, Two, Atheism

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• According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.

  Robert Klein

  Bullying, Teacher, New York

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• I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

  Kevin Costner

  Horse, Fighting, Sight

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• Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Thinking, Attachment

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Soulmate, Teaching

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• Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Art, People

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• Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out.

  John Scales

  Football, Hair

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• I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

  David Rockefeller

  Brother, Real, Power

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House

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• Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

  Richard L. Evans

  Marriage, Wise, Respect

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• We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Culture, Attention

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.241, Routledge

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• I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspiring, Soccer, Long

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• Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what her painting isn't, until she finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is; you're off and running.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Thinking, White

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• Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off completely, because she's pulling it off, and I couldn't figure out a way to do it.

  Allison Moorer

  Country, Philosophy, Writing

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• What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a marionette, it's not playing ventriloquist, and it's not mimicry. It's about inhabiting a character, and, at the same time, being totally unaware of what you've become.

  Nathan Englander

  Writing, Character, Mouths

  "This Week in Fiction: Nathan Englander". Interview with Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. December 5, 2011.

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