Dragged Quotes
213 quotes by 199 authors
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The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the…
— Vinoba Bhave
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I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look…
— Jessica Biel
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities…
— Vince Cable
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If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…
— Michelle Obama
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I would like you to accept only one prayer, and that is laughter, because when you are totally laughing you are in the present. You…
— Rajneesh
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Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour,…
— Rajneesh
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year…
— Barack Obama
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We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission -…
— Barack Obama
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
— George Monbiot
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[A fan] said, 'What can I do to get your attention?' I was like 'Um, just take your clothes off.' She stood there and frantically…
— Robert Pattinson
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We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was walking down the street. something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.
— Emo Philips
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a…
— Loren Eiseley
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The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul…
— Georges Bernanos
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort…
— Victor Hugo
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
— Mary Antin
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on…
— Yiyun Li
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The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees,
— Ryan Reynolds
Who Wrote These Dragged Quotes
199 authors contributed a total of 213 Dragged Quotes, led by these top contributors: