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Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France. -- John Crowe Ransom
I turned my head and saw the wind, Not far from where I stood, Dragging the corn by her golden hair, Into a dark and lonely wood. -- W. H. Davies
Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death. -- H. G. Wells
If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked. -- Dolly Parton
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. -- Joni Mitchell
This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me. -- David O. Selznick
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening. -- Lykke Li
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. -- Henry Rollins
I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me. -- Nik Wallenda
You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
I don't mind having a big butt - they're back in style. But I do a lot of squats to make sure my booty's not dragging on the ground. -- Miranda Lambert
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out. -- Hannah Simone
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. -- Deb Caletti
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves. -- Dirk Benedict
But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. -- Theodor Herzl
I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life. -- Tina Turner
For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts. -- Randy Neugebauer
Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible. -- Danny DeVito
A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them. -- Debbie Ford
We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries. -- Ernst Toller
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet. -- Olivia Wilde
Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long. -- Javier Bardem
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down. -- Antoine Fuqua
The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before. -- Peter Dawson
Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate. -- Robert Asprin
Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive. -- Zac Goldsmith
I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. -- Taylor Swift
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind - I've always loved it. -- Xavier Rudd
Stop dragging my heart around. -- Stevie Nicks
I'm dragging the audience to hell with me -- Jerry Lee Lewis
There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it. -- Rumi
She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake. -- Elvis Costello
An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging. -- Pancho Segura
Hollywood isn't exactly dragging me, or even aware of me. -- Guy Maddin
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. -- Frances Mayes
Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print. -- Wendell Phillips
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. -- Albert Einstein
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you find your feet dragging, check your path. You are probably on the wrong one. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff. -- Daniel Handler
I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money. -- Roger McGuinn
Somebody call Janet Reno - I think I just saw Donato dragging Doug Flutie into a locker room closet! -- Dennis Miller
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them . -- Ludwig van Beethoven
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then. -- Seneca the Younger
As Donald Trump`s fortunes continue to slide, he`s increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican`s weapon. -- Chris Hayes
Life is not lost -dying; life is lost minute -minute, day -dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. -- Peter McWilliams
We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. -- Werner Herzog
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. -- Alan Beck
I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot. -- Fedor Emelianenko
It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. -- Keri Arthur
You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods. -- Stephenie Meyer
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term. -- Susan Sontag
I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet. -- Mark Kozelek
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. -- George Bernard Shaw
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. -- Robin Sloan
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds. -- Terence McKenna
Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. â??But he knows New York. He doesnâ??t know Alicanteâ?? -- Cassandra Clare
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form? -- Robert Genn
What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay? -- Nikki Giovanni
You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
I, cruel to Marks? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me. -- Lisa Kleypas
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. -- Catherine Fahringer
I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life. -- Mark Hall
If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal. -- Leon Brown
Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go. -- Henry Ward Beecher
When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging. -- Laini Taylor
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it. -- Anton Chekhov
Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this -- Ann Coulter
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter. -- Charles Cowden Clarke
So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over... -- Steven Wright
She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress -- Janet Fitch
The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation. -- Warren Mundine
If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them. -- Magic Johnson
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. -- Oscar Wilde
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits. -- Aeschylus
I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked. -- Dolly Parton
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
On I'll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot â?? I, so big and by no one needed? -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap! -- Alexandre Dumas
Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down. -- Walter Dean Myers
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics. -- Florence King
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. -- Christopher Moore
I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life -- Tina Turner
To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days. -- Phil Robertson
And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle,.. -- John Green
Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready to inquire, dragging the vampire along behind it on the investigation. -- Gail Carriger
Sometimes I'm dragging my ass out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted. -- Bill Maher
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow -- Colleen McCullough
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow. -- Colleen McCullough
I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence. -- Maureen Johnson

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