#pulling

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. ↗

— James Thurber

#dog #down #dragged #frequently #his

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#hand #hope #into #like #marriage

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#down #exerting #other #pulling #pushing

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us. ↗

— Roy Wood

#actually #album #always #band #bit

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated. ↗

— William Hague

#although #completely #doubt #exaggerated #forces

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#before #doing #done #ever #guitar

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from. ↗

— Zac Hanson

#because #different #different people #different things #experiences

The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#created #economy #enacted #got #jobs

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#arnold schwarzenegger #because #concentrate #defeat #energy

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope