Pull Strings Quotes

#1. Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

Larry Elder

#2. We're all just marionettes, Ashline," Eve said softly. "Dangling, dancing, waiting. You can pretend like you pull your own strings, but in the end your only hope is that you've landed in the hands of someone who knows what the hell they're doing.

Karsten Knight

#3. Man said, I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!

Henry Van Dyke

#4. Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull.
Your life is no longer your own.

Howard Fast

#6. Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

Naomi Wolf

#7. I love Calgary. It's a great city. I enjoyed my time there, quite a bit. Shooting and filming in that cold could be very difficult, at times. When you're shooting nights, and it's 3 in the morning and minus 35 degrees, that's hard to work in.

Colin Hanks

#8. A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#9. How can I bribe my tongue to speak as truth the things my heart so contradicts. Attach to me then your strings and pull and I shall dance and be your puppet ... for a time

Tonny K. Brown

#10. It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance ... after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

Mercedes Lackey

#11. Phaedra looked across the water and her eyes met Lucian's. Their needs came second. It came from the privilege of being trusted.
But that doesn't mean I love you less.

Melina Marchetta

#12. Never let anyone pull at your heart strings unless they plan on permanently tying them to their own - Anonymous

Katie Ashley

#13. Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.

Aziz Ansari

#14. All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Aldous Huxley

#15. Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

Lars Von Trier

#16. When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

Jerry West

#17. We've lost so much. We might lose more. But for now I can sit here, under the trees and sky, and pull music from the strings.

Emma Trevayne

#18. I want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of doritos at a party

Megan Boyle

#19. In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Theodore E. Steinway

#20. Nick scowled out the window. "I have friends in Exeter already. I have-those people, you know, they hang around outside the bike sheds, they're always hassling Jamie."
"Those are some awesome dudes," Jamie muttered. "Don't let them get away.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#21. Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

John Donne

#22. Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

Roger Ebert

#23. What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage!

Wilkie Collins

#24. He's got a thing for Alex Riley.

John Morrison

#25. We leave our home," she pointed upwards, "and come here. When we're done down here in the swamp of humanity, whatever you want to call it, we go home. To our real home. We all do. No choice. Whether you believe it or not.

Jonas Saul

#26. The artist who goes into himself most deeply -- and it is a painful journey -- is the artist who touches us most closely, speaks to us most clearly.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#27. I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.

George Carlin

#28. Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it ... You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings.
- Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)

Masashi Kishimoto