Dragged Quotes
213 Dragged quotes by 193 unique authors
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
— James Thurber
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
— James Thurber
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the…
— Angus Young
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For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless,…
— Martin Luther
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It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate…
— Susanna Kaysen
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For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady…
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
— Neil Gaiman
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And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain…
— Douglas Adams
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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out…
— Sarah Dessen
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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped…
— Gregory Maguire
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Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the…
— Karen Chance
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Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking…
— Chinua Achebe
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I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men…
— Robert E. Howard
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Nights were the worst. I'd try to get some sleep, only to be thrown out of bed and dragged out into the compound for another…
— D. J. MacHale
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Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.
— Richelle Mead
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He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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