Quotes About Puppet Strings

#1. 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

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

Hugh Howey

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Sally Odgers

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Sam Harris

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

Evan Sutter

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

Guy Davenport

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

Emilyann Girdner

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

Leigh Bardugo

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

Alan Moore

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

#20. After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

Julius Caesar

#21. I can't change it. It's part of who I was. Past tense. All I know is that I want you, all the fucking time, every day, endlessly. I don't know how to deal with that. I don't know how to make sense of it without overwhelming you, and I don't want to tell you anything that's going to jeopardize it.

Helena Hunting

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The hour on Sunday can be a time of wonder, a time of transformation, maybe even a time of awe.

Nancy Beach

#26. If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

Duff Goldman

#27. 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

#28. I didn't need to be liked. I didn't need friends, and I centrainly didn't need the kid trying to guild me into being something I wasn't. I was fine. Just a little cold.

Alexandra Bracken

#29. I love to eat everything and you pretty much can - a little piece of something fattening is not going to kill you. It's when you eat the whole box that it's going to kill you.

Jennifer Lopez

#30. 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

#31. I am often tongue-tied with strangers and have what the philosopher Monsieur Diderot calls l'esprit de l'escalier, staircase wit: only long after a remark is made to me will my imagination supply the thing I should have said in reply.

Debra Dean

#32. It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

Alexander Hamilton

#33. As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

Kate Langley Bosher

#34. Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

Irwin Edman

#35. The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.

Marcel Proust

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

Sam Harris

#37. 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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#39. When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

Ralph Fiennes

#40. 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

#41. I was lifted from the darkness I endured into the person I am today.

Stephen Richards