Pull Quotes

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?

You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'

Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.

I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.