Top 100 To Pull Quotes
#1. It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.
Paul Bloom
#2. She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn't have to be your own.
Karen White
#4. That tug against my heart, the painless, invisible cord trying to pull me forward, rips something from me like the shirt being torn from my back, and I scream as part of me is left behind.
Celine Kiernan
#5. Then I realized that you can appreciate the memories and the good times, no matter how rare they are, without condoning all the shit that happened to you. You should never feel guilty for trying to pull the good out of the bad." More
Karina Halle
#6. All my most unreachable dreams were suddenly, so unbelievably, about to come true. But they were forbidden. The right thing to do would be to pull away, turn from him, run back to the house. My head screamed at me to flee, but my heart begged me to stay.
Cindy Ray Hale
#7. I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be able to pull something out of the bag.
King Khan
#8. When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.
Steve Valentine
#9. In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
Martha Gellhorn
#10. I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.
Robin S. Sharma
#11. I have a theory about how she might have managed to pull off such a feat. It comes in the form of an equation: Love + Fear = Herculean Strength. It's how mothers come to fling runaway motorcars from their children.
Franny Billingsley
#12. I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate ... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished ... but I'm not going there ... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#13. I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.
Tricia Helfer
#14. Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice
#15. In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
LaTanya Richardson
#16. The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future.
Joanna Macy
#17. The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed.
Phil Klay
#18. The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.
Kurt Cobain
#19. It had been a conscious decision to pull free. It had taken everything I had to do it, like an animal gnawing a limb off to escape a trap. And somehow I had done it;
Donna Tartt
#20. If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've been through it and have a network of people they can tap and resources to pull together.
Tony Fadell
#21. I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off.
Julianne Moore
#22. We need to pull over now," she screeched as she gagged. "Paper is not supposed to be made out of poop.
Robyn Peterman
#23. I was wondering If I was going to get a dance at all," I commented, trying to sound playful.
Maxon managed to pull me even closer. "I was saving this one. I've put in time with all the other girls, so my obligations are over. Now I can enjoy the rest of my evening with you.
Kiera Cass
#24. Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.
John Trudell
#25. Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.
Dean Kamen
#26. I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants.
Klaus Lackner
#27. I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache.
Rich Sommer
#28. Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge.
Sylvia Plath
#29. I'll never fully shake that sense of absolute impotence when destiny is at work. The feeling will cling to my feet forever, trying to pull me down. Even now if I mess up a pass, that malign force could be to blame. For that reason, I steer well clear of the DVD from the Liverpool game.
Andrea Pirlo
#31. I've had the idea since high school, of writing music just for voices, just a choir. I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing it, but I'd definitely be excited about trying to pull that off at some point. It definitely seems like an older-me kind of project.
Panda Bear
#32. You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.
Ricky Gervais
#33. Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"
She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free.
"I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.
Nora Roberts
#34. This time I don't have enough time to pull back before he takes my hand. "You'll always be my love, that will never change. You'll always be the girl who became my whole heart when I barely understood what love was. I really thought we would make it until the end, you know? I hate that we didn't.
Tammy Faith
#35. Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.
Jane Goodall
#36. Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
Eric Drooker
#37. I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#38. I don't think people have an appreciation for the work that it takes to pull these missions off, like humans living on the space station continuously for 15 years. It is a huge army of hard-working people to make it happen.
Scott Kelly
#39. I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.
Mark Haddon
#40. She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.
B. Barmanbek
#41. A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.
Lawrence Reed
#42. He wanted to pull her inside his skin and carry her around close to his heart.
Cooper McKenzie
#43. Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
Louis J. Camuti
#44. In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Kanye West
#45. When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba
#46. I feel alive and heavy with emotion, heavy like a tide that threatens to pull you under, but you somehow know it won't because your heart is buoyant enough to keep you afloat no matter what.
Kim Holden
#47. I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.
Jane Levy
#48. I was spinning - from the kiss, the alcohol or the lack of air, I wasn't sure, but I knew I needed to pull away if only just to breath.
Melissa Aragon
#49. Well," he said, opening the door to his car, "all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it." [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. "And then you die.
Neil Strauss
#50. Maggot, I'm going to pull a rabbit out of your hat!
Soldier
#51. When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.
John Gray
#52. My futon was a fancy one with armrests and everything. It was a pain in the ass to get open because it weighed a ton. I figured I'd make the bed when Luke got back. He'd probably be able to pull it out by glaring at it.
Kristen Ashley
#53. While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.
Darynda Jones
#54. Where Damien and I are concerned, there is never just silence. There is heat and electricity and lust and need, all harnessing the power of the universe to pull us together. And how can I be expected to fight physics?
J. Kenner
#55. we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out.
Marcus Garvey
#56. I'm sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands," Kitteredge said. "He's a friend of the family."
So that's it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.
Don Winslow
#57. Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
Henry James
#58. Being a vet doesn't mean I know how to fix you in this shape." She gestured to his body. "I'll admit there's only one long and hard shape I really want you to fix, but if that's going to happen, then first, you need to pull this piece of metal out of me. It smarts.
Eve Langlais
#59. Fair-minded people make a concerted effort to pull their own weight rather than living off the hard work of others.
Frank Sonnenberg
#60. The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.
David Bowie
#61. Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.
Grace Kelly
#62. How rough your hands still are."
Embarrassed, she made to pull them away, but he held them fast. "Yet never have I longed to kiss any woman's hands as I long to kiss these.
Julie Klassen
#63. He wanted to pull down the top and dine a la cleavage.
Louisa Bacio
#64. As capital becomes more and more organised, it tends to pull together all its different strands, bringing a statist element to the enterprise, a bourgeois element to the trade-union bureaucracy, and a social element to public administration.
Anonymous
#65. It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.
Harold B. Lee
#66. Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
Noel Coward
#67. I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me.
Thighpaulsandra
#68. That werewolf fantasy would be a hard one to pull off. She'd have to troll through the forest in high heels, just praying one of the scruffy campers was actually a raving beast.
Victoria Dahl
#69. For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
Tennessee Williams
#70. If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Standing exposed on a rooftop, with no railing and the wind whipping about him, threatening to pull him flailing and screaming to the ground? That held no interest for him.
Matt Forbeck
#72. 36 Behold, I am Moroni, your chief captain. I aseek not for power, but to pull it down. I bseek not for honor of the world, but for the glory of my God, and the freedom and welfare of my country. And thus I close mine epistle.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#73. That's part of the insidiousness of addiction, I thought. You remember the depth and blackness of the hole you were in and not the strength it took to pull yourself out. "I
Emma Scott
#74. If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.
C. JoyBell C.
#75. Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.
Gary Hopkins
#76. It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.
Alex Graves
#77. I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.
Pat Schneider
#78. My arm itches to reach up and wrap around her. To pull her closer, but can we get closer? Right now she might be closer to me than anyone's ever been.
Nyrae Dawn
#79. The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and engineer - to pull the magic out of them and make them sound so great.
Nikki Sixx
#80. I have the overwhelming urge to pull her up out of her chair and kiss her in front of everyone, then scream my resignation at the top of my lungs.
Colleen Hoover
#81. You must learn how to "pull" deep smarts from others.
Anonymous
#82. If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body.
Gary Busey
#83. I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favorite style is long, real hair in a dusty blonde-brown color.
Trey Songz
#84. My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.
Jane Smiley
#85. I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
Ina Garten
#86. The thrill in fashion for me is taking a risk and daring myself to make it work. Even when I go shopping, I always buy something twisted and I know I'm going to have to figure out somehow to pull it off and make it my own.
Rihanna
#87. Stop complainin." Jess climbed up to the cab and leaned down to pull me up beside him. "I'm not complaining." His fingers clung to my wrists as the soles on my gray, canvas shoes slipped up the worn steps. "It's hot. I'm sweatin'. I don't want to go campin'," his voiced pitched high to mock me.
S.D. Hendrickson
#88. In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.
Hugh Laurie
#89. Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.
Neon Hitch
#90. Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.
Jack Johnson
#91. It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.
Josh Hartnett
#92. Was that amazing?" she demanded.
"That was amazing," I agreed. It's hard to pull off a romantic kiss when you're both drenched in muck, but we gave it our best shot.
Rick Riordan
#93. The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.
Kurt Vonnegut
#94. Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.
Patty Griffin
#95. What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.
Thelma Drake
#96. The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.
David Baldacci
#97. The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.
Rick Yancey
#98. Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.
Leah Raeder
#99. I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.
Leelee Sobieski
#100. I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.
Hayden Panettiere