#puppet

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

— Georg Buchner

#forces #only #our #pulled #puppets

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. ↗

— Ted Rall

#alliance #cheap #country #else #hands

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#comes #coverage #dying #event #focus

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. ↗

— William Jackson

#cartoon #characteristics #characters #eccentric #home

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#brother #creative #eric #family #his

And we saved your life, y’know,” Andrew said, jerking his head in Oliver’s direction. “I mean, the least you could do is thank us.” “Of course!” Oliver said hastily. “Thank you very much for saving my life.” “It was really dangerous back there,” Patricia said earnestly, as if wanting to make sure that he understood what kind of situation they had rescued him from. “Yes, beheading is a serious business, I suppose,” Oliver said kindly. “I think it would have been difficult to keep on living once my head was chopped off. ↗

— Zeinab Alayan

#gratefulness #humor #puppets #business

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. ↗

— William Laud

#church #churches #down #heads #held

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#actresses #puppets #talk-show-host #tv #movies

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#any #country #go #i #i am