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Quotes About Pulls

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.
~ David Lynch
The gravity of any location pulls citizens to its heart, organizing people by abstractly spiritual geography.
~ Jardine Libaire
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Thought lengths it, pulls an invisible world through a needle's eye one detail at a time, ...
~ Jennifer Grotz
His voice made me shiver, it was like the sound of water when it pulls off the sand.
~ Jenny Han
A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Banaras really pulls you. I had been to the city several years ago for a film shoot. Though I have very fleeting memories of that stay, I still remember that I had gone to Kashi Vishwanath temple and shopped for some Banarasi saris.
~ Himani Shivpuri
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
~ Anne Carson
Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, and the thought that abortion is wasted on the unborn must show on my face, because his mother finally tells him to stop.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.
~ Dan Brown
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
~ George Eliot
One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The tension of opposites? "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. "A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
~ Mitch Albom
Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites? Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
~ Mitch Albom
The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
~ Morrie Schwartz
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
~ George Eliot
Stacy just watches her body in amazement as the hand clutches onto her leg and pulls. Another hand emerges and grabs her other thigh, trying to pull itself out of there.
~ Carlton Mellick III
...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes make them stronger.
~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The gaze of nature, when thus awakened, dreams and pulls the poet after its dream. Words, too, can have an aura of their own.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.
~ Thomas Leonard
Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.
~ Dan Brown
A shiver goes through his body, and his hand goes to my waist, but instead of pushing me away, he pulls me into the bed with him, rolling my body across him onto the heavily embroidered coverlets.
~ Holly Black
I kiss her and she finds the light switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colors and it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, this conversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and grasps and teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation.
~ David Levithan
Thanks to 'Eega,' people respect me as actor. That abundance of respect is what pulls me towards cinema.
~ Sudeep