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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous Huxley
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.
M. C. Escher
[Speaking about women's friendships] If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as... it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
Jennifer Beals
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.
Cordell Hull
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
George Herbert
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt
The essayist ... can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.
E. B. White
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Rosa Parks
The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull Each tugs it a different way, And the greatest of all is John Bull.
Lord Byron
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
Arthur Miller
I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.
Mehmet Oz
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
Walter Russell Mead
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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