Pull Quotes

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. (Pablo Picasso)
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
M. C. Escher
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. (Tyra Banks)
[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. View quote
Jennifer Beals
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. View quote
Cordell Hull
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. View quote
George Herbert
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Arthur Miller
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. (Henry Ford)
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson