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Quotes About Tug

this life is a fist of fast wishes caught by nothing but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug.
~ Ada Limón
The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.
~ Julian Barnes, The Lemon Table
Tug tended fire which cook him," said Gorp. "Cruel irony.
~ Jeff Strand
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.
~ Khaled Hosseini
A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.
~ Joan Erikson
This is the deep-space commercial tug Nostromo, registration number one eight zero, two four six, en route to Earth with bulk cargo crude petroleum and appropriate refinery. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.
~ Alan Dean Foster
I thought, these are the evening routines which will soon be mine, the tug of an unknown suburb, or a bar, or a lover.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.
~ Sam Kean
People talk of the wrench of parting, and that, he felt, was exactly what it was. Take a metal object off a magnet and one would experience that - there was the draw, the tug, the flow of the bond even through the air, and then the sudden detaching as separation occurred. That was what it was like. That was human parting. You felt it; you felt the separation, just as you would feel the rending of tissue being pulled apart.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I closed my eyes, feeling the tug of the books. This was my refuge, my fortress of solitude. Standing in this quiet cave, surrounded by walls of books, was normally enough to ease my mind no matter how stressful things got . . . but not today. Today the books called to me. Every one was a gateway to magic, waiting to be unlocked.
~ Jim C. Hines
He's a spider. A web-weaver, with lines stringing out in all directions. He sits at the centre and interprets each tug.
~ Robin Hobb
An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reversed. A palindrome: gut-tug.
~ Lorrie Moore
A destroyer is towed in from the horizon. A throbbing of the tug's engines, behind it the quiet gray behemoth rolls a giant wake and Dorotea sees the numbers painted on the sides and ship-sinking cannons that look so calm and clean. Its hull is big as an apartment building; she wonders how she could ever believe her father could learn about something so big. How anyone could learn about something so big.
~ Anthony Doerr
To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.
~ Ryan Kavanaugh
Don't annoy me, little dog, Tug seemed to say. I know your mother.
~ John Flanagan
I hope nothing killed it." Anything that could take on an Ativahika— well, Singer was an unarmed tug, and fuel-efficient, but not what you would call a fast or maneuverable flyer. He was good at going in straight lines really cheaply while hauling enormous masses at a safe but respectable clip, though—which was why his white coils were so much bigger than he was. None better, if that was what you needed, and usually in our case it was
~ Elizabeth Bear
Buy a commercial puppy play pole or make one yourself by tying your puppy's favorite toy to a pole or stick. Bounce the toy along as you say to your puppy, "Go get your toy!" If your puppy loves to tug, teach them to release on the word Give by periodically waving a smelly treat in front of their nose and rewarding them as they release the toy.
~ Sarah Hodgson
I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.
~ Sarah Waters
Delicate, hauntingly uncertain music floated out of the house. Vane heard it as he walked up from the stables. The lilting strains reached him, then wrapped about him, about his mind, sinking into his senses. They were a siren's song- and he knew precisely who was singing. Halting on the graveled drive before the stable arch, he listened to the moody air. It drew him- he could feel the tug as if it was physical. The music spoke- of need, of restless frustration, of underlying rebellion.
~ Stephanie Laurens
reached out and yanked on it. The string
~ Michael Connelly
Ma simteam atrasa de el , ca si cum as fi fost legata cu o franghie de care trage incet, dar fara contenire.
~ Sylvia Day
Even the gods felt close, drawn to witness all that was to come. Witness, or to seize the moment and act directly. A nudge here, a tug there, if only to appease their egos… if only to see what happens.
~ Steven Erikson
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background.
~ Helen Oyeyemi