Pull someone by the ears and his head will follow. — Indian Proverbs
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world. — Nadeem Aslam
If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope. — Max Gunther
A drowning man takes hold of his own hair — Greek Proverbs
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. — Leonardo da Vinci
From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean. — Rumi
Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. — Satchel Paige
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. — Victor Frankl
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. — George S. Patton
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins — Priscilla Shirer
Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along. — Egyptian Proverbs
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. — Michael Ondaatje
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. — Michael Parenti
Short Tugging Quotes
There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape. — Roman Reigns
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible. — Friedrich August von Hayek
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. — Robert Breault
I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war — Shel Silverstein
If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed. — Robert E. Haebel
Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. — Robert Breault
Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war. — Shel Silverstein
Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else. — John Muir
Tugging Image Quotes
Heart Touching Quotes
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach. — Le Corbusier
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith
The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God...and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary. — Pope Pius X
We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts. — Mary Baker Eddy
Nagging Quotes
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend! — Don Rickles
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench
If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard. — Arthur Japin
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. — Edith Summerskill
Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them. — Elaine Pagels
Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother. — Clinton Anderson
I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...' — Mike Binder
The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. — Joni Eareckson Tada
Tug Quotes
Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts. — Parker J. Palmer
When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Variant - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
Variant - Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe. — John Muir
A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything. — Joan Erikson
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born. — Anne Lamott
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. — Shel Silverstein
A good debate is not a war. It’s not even a tug-of-war… it’s more like a dance that hasn’t been choreographed. — Adam Grant
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. — Jodie Foster
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. — Veronica Roth
As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy. — Aretha Franklin
Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was. — Sarah Kay
Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. — George S. Patton
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. — Dan Rather
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently. — Beryl Markham
Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart. — Karen Russell
I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favorite style is long, real hair in a dusty blonde-brown color. — Sayings
Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim. — Jim Croce
A thong. God bless the thong. He hooked his fingers in the silk sides and tugged, rolling the silk down her legs until it hit the floor, his favorite place for panties. — Jill Shalvis
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. — Lewis Thomas
Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose. — Robert G. Allen
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. — Henry Mitchell
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal. — Jeremy Clarkson
She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have. — Cassandra Clare
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. — Lauren Oliver
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence. — John Turner
I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government. — Van Jones
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. — Umberto Eco
One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes. — Uma Thurman
I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it. — Avril Lavigne
The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession. — Dervla Murphy
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair. — Tayari Jones
I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer. Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my back. He gave a low groan. "I love you," he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I ever remember being. — Becca Fitzpatrick
A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more — Andrew Peterson
Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs at you like a puppy on a leash in the park. Follow the magic and magic starts to follow you. — Tama J. Kieves
When you have a childhood dream that still burns and tugs at your heart when you're an adult, you owe it to yourself to pursue and achieve this dream. — Robert Cheeke
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