Puppet On Strings Quotes

#1. We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Alan Moore

#2. What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?

Barry Lyga

#3. Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which nodded their heads and moved their legs and arms when you pulled the strings.

Emile Zola

#4. From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

Sam Harris

#5. I was a puppet on the strings to my cravings and desires.

Evan Sutter

#6. To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place ... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliot Erwitt

#7. I've carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it's on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

Guy Davenport

#8. My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.

Emilyann Girdner

#9. My soul, I've found, has puppet strings
to make me droop or give me wings.
And music is the puppeteer
that turns my ear to hear.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Every act of violence was deliberate, and every favor came with enough strings attached to stage a puppet show.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. All the great coincidences and marvelous achievements of his life disappeared in a flash. In their place were puppet strings. 'A

Hugh Howey

#12. Sitting makes us think of standing
Our current stance keeps on demanding
We wish to fly without the wings
Puppets move before pulling the strings

Munia Khan

#13. Your mortal attachments are like a puppet's strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!

Rachel Vincent

#14. The recitation of grievances was strange balm.

Regina O'Melveny

#15. If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.'
'True.' Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you.

Christopher Pike

#16. 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

#17. As for Fergus. He had a habit which Maud was not experienced enough to recognise as a common one in ex-lovers of giving little tugs at the carefully severed spider-threads or puppet-strings which had once tied her to him.

A.S. Byatt

#18. History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

R. Scott Bakker

#19. 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

#20. Remembering and forgiving can be contrary things

Marilynne Robinson

#21. For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

George W. Bush

#22. The more he told me about himself, the more leverage I had for manipulation," he told Bob's researcher. "I just kept fueling the fire; the more fuel I added to the fire, the bigger payoff for me. I was the puppet master pulling the strings." Eventually

Jon Ronson

#23. So tired of Noam and Herod and Sir and Angra and all these arrogant, puppet-master men who hold all the strings and refuse to give them up.

Sara Raasch

#24. You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

Jack Kevorkian

#25. Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.

Robin Hobb

#26. Our dreams recover what the world forgets.

James Hillman

#27. A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Sam Harris

#28. Dawn, Cillian. That is how long I'll wait for your apology. For you to remember you were nothing but a puppet king who forgot he was on strings.

J.J. McAvoy

#29. The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

Sally Odgers

#30. More often than not, a C.E.O is merely a puppet whose strings are pulled by a board of directors.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#31. Be a little puppet on their strings. That was what Reyn wanted from her, also. She recognized that even if he did not. He was attracted to her not just for her beauty and charm, but because she was young. He thought he could control all her actions and even her thoughts.

Robin Hobb

#32. so she pulled on all her puppet-strings and ignored how they pulled right back until they nearly ripped right out of her heart to leave it bleeding.

Cole McCade

#33. Jake smiled, as if he enjoyed my temper tantrum. "Patience is a virtue."
"Yeah, well, so is virginity, but I don't have that anymore, either.

Alison Bliss

#34. I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

August Wilson

#35. America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.

Anneli Rufus

#36. I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the puppeteer pulling the strings.

L. Duarte

#37. There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

Brad Pitt