Pulling Quotes

520 quotes by 460 authors

With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall… — Virginia Woolf
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, â€œRun run run run run,â€ and took off, pulling me behind her. — John Green
Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go… — Nick Hornby
Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are. — Francesca Lia Block
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to… — Barbara Kingsolver
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one… — Kenneth Grahame
But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire bottle of firewhiskey,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Big Brother isnâ€™t watching. Heâ€™s singing and dancing. Heâ€™s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brotherâ€™s busy holding your attention every moment youâ€™re awake.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my fatherâ€™s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on… — Walt Whitman
God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking… — Henri Nouwen
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only… — Haruki Murakami
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective… — Victor Hugo
O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found… — E E Cummings
Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up… — Neal A. Maxwell
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if… — E E Cummings
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers… — Ann Brashares
Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely… — Daniel Handler

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