Tugging quotes
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else."
"I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole."
"Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else."
"When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over."
"Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole."
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"I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me."