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Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else. -- John Muir
Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying. -- John Flanagan
Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said. Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more. They found out the following evening. -- John Flanagan
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. -- George S. Patton
Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot. -- Justin Bieber
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future. -- Jill Lepore
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart. -- Bil Keane
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. -- Jodie Foster
It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society. -- Nikki Sixx
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
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I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. -- Shel Silverstein
For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much. -- Elisabeth Shue
I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic. -- Ella Henderson
I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring. -- Sloane Crosley
I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world. -- Chelsea Cain
War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war. -- Larry Wall
Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war. -- Shel Silverstein
You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. -- Randall Dale Adams
Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now. -- Kiera Cass
Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now. -- Alexandra Bracken
An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug. -- Lorrie Moore
Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape... -- Roman Reigns
I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war -- Shel Silverstein
Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. -- Robert Breault
I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug. -- Carrie Fisher
Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still. -- Aldous Huxley
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you'll find its attached to everything else. -- John Muir
The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being. -- Pooja Ruprell
If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed. -- Robert E. Haebel
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded. -- Robert Breault
I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war. -- Lauren Oliver
That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway. -- Zoe Whittall
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, -- Deborah Harkness
If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one. -- Max Gunther
A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything. -- Joan Erikson
Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose. -- Robert G. Allen
One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate. -- Nancy Mairs
What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash. -- Adyashanti
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral. -- John Ortberg
There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing. -- Kehinde Wiley
I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines. -- Jill Stein
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. -- Jodi Picoult
It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual. -- Lauren Groff
He leaned back for a moment to tug her shirt down her arms, with the same wicked, lovley smile that had first stolen her breath years ago. -- Melissa Marr
I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way. -- Patricia St. John
I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing. -- Ray Charles
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug. -- Michael Parenti
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing. -- Khaled Hosseini
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence. -- John Turner
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette. -- James Elkins
I'll tug at your breasts like a thirsty child. Try not to burn your nipples in my hot coffee. While you're at it, I also like sugar in my coffee. -- Jarod Kintz
As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy. -- Aretha Franklin
Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim. -- Jim Croce
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization. -- Julian Barnes
How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time. -- Jeremy Camp
You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal. -- Jeremy Clarkson
It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship. -- Keke Palmer

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