Quotes About Puppets On Strings

#1. Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

Winston Graham

#2. Been making love for hours and, baby, we're still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain't going to be able to move.

Barry White

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

#4. It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

George R R Martin

#5. 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

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

Alan Moore

#7. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our stead.

George R R Martin

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

Guy Davenport

#9. Power Thought: My thoughts are not hidden from God. I know I can change with His help.

Joyce Meyer

#10. The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#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. Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Leigh Hunt

#13. We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

Georg Buchner

#14. I'm tired and bitchy and all I want is some sleep so cuddle your ass up with me or so help me I will kill you.

R.L. Mathewson

#15. The lamplight gleamed on the Magus' white grin. People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists

Joe Abercrombie

#16. She talked about God giving man free will. Because of that, there is evil in the world. If God pulled everyone's strings all the time, we'd be puppets.

Janice Cantore

#17. Nothing lasts forever,' I said, flicking cigarette ash into a cut-glass tray. 'We all have a short time, to shine or just survive.

Tara Hanks

#18. I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.

Larry Kirshbaum

#19. When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.

Gore Vidal

#20. We cannot accept this sort of money from a stranger.'
'Maybe it's not a stranger,' Susan said.
'Then that's even worse!' Elizabeth retorted. 'My God, can you imagine? Some horrid person treating us like puppets, pulling our strings, thinking he can control our destiny?

Julia Quinn

#21. Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.

Lance Conrad

#22. We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings ...

Charles W. Chesnutt

#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. It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

Stanley Milgram

#25. Puppets go to sleep the moment they break free from their strings.

Les Coleman

#26. I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

Jack Canfield