Quotes about tug

A collection of quotes on the topic of tug, likeness, world, first.

Quotes about tug

Justin Bieber photo

“When I was coming up, trying to get to where I am now, people were so happy for me. They were rooting for me. Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot… A lot of people say they hate Justin Bieber who haven't even listened to my music. They just hate the idea of me.”

Justin Bieber (1994) Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor

Interview with V Magazine, as quoted in UsMagazine: Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Drugs and Turning 18 http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/justin-bieber-talks-sex-drugs-and-turning-18-2012101, January 2012

John Muir photo

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

These are paraphrases of Muir's quote from My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) - the actual quote is listed above: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." See Sierra Club explanation http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/misquotes.aspx.
Misattributed
Variant: Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
Variant: When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.

Michael Parenti photo

“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 (1933) American academic

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

Catherine of Genoa photo
John Flanagan photo
Neal Shusterman photo
Khaled Hosseini photo
Rachel Caine photo
John Flanagan photo

“Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Kim Harrison photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Umberto Eco photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Kenneth Grahame photo
Zadie Smith photo
Richard Rodríguez photo
John Horgan (journalist) photo
Emily Dickinson photo
Daniel Day-Lewis photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Colette Dowling photo
Joseph Conrad photo

“Then, on the slight turn of the Lower Hope Reach, clusters of factory chimneys come distinctly into view, tall and slender above the squat ranges of cement works in Grays and Greenhithe. Smoking quietly at the top against the great blaze of a magnificent sunset, they give an industrial character to the scene, speak of work, manufactures, and trade, as palm-groves on the coral strands of distant islands speak of the luxuriant grace, beauty and vigour of tropical nature. The houses of Gravesend crowd upon the shore with an effect of confusion as if they had tumbled down haphazard from the top of the hill at the back. The flatness of the Kentish shore ends there. A fleet of steam-tugs lies at anchor in front of the various piers. A conspicuous church spire, the first seen distinctly coming from the sea, has a thoughtful grace, the serenity of a fine form above the chaotic disorder of men’s houses. But on the other side, on the flat Essex side, a shapeless and desolate red edifice, a vast pile of bricks with many windows and a slate roof more inaccessible than an Alpine slope, towers over the bend in monstrous ugliness, the tallest, heaviest building for miles around, a thing like an hotel, like a mansion of flats (all to let), exiled into these fields out of a street in West Kensington. Just round the corner, as it were, on a pier defined with stone blocks and wooden piles, a white mast, slender like a stalk of straw and crossed by a yard like a knitting-needle, flying the signals of flag and balloon, watches over a set of heavy dock-gates. Mast-heads and funnel-tops of ships peep above the ranges of corrugated iron roofs. This is the entrance to Tilbury Dock, the most recent of all London docks, the nearest to the sea.”

Hope Point to Tilbury / Gravesend
The Mirror of the Sea (1906), On the River Thames, Ch. 16

Jean Paul Sartre photo
Andy Partridge photo

“I say I like your coat
Her thank-you tugs my heart afloat
I nearly didn't hear for
Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her”

Andy Partridge (1953) British musician

"Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her".
The Big Express (1984)

B.K.S. Iyengar photo

“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 (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 12

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon photo
Lawrence Wright photo

“The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard’s legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world’s greatest con man. Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.”

Lawrence Wright (1947) American writer

[Wright, Lawrence, February 14, 2011, The Apostate, Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology, The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright?currentPage=all]

Larry the Cable Guy photo
David Brin photo
Martin Amis photo
Haruki Murakami photo
John Turner photo

“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 (1929) 17th Prime Minister of Canada

1968 Liberal Party Leadership convention speech, April 5, 1968. ( http://ms.radio-canada.ca/archives_new/2006/en/wmv/turner19680405et1.wmv)

Nathaniel Lee photo

“When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.”

Act iv., Sc. 2.
The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

Gabrielle Roy photo
Arun Shourie photo
Van Jones photo
Steph Davis photo
Ela Bhatt photo
Antonio Gramsci photo
Edith Wharton photo

“I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)

Francis Escudero photo
Richard Wright photo
Aeschylus photo

“Like a young horse
Who bites against the new bit in his teeth,
And tugs and struggles against the new-tried rein.”

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 1009–1010 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

George Gordon Byron photo

“The world is a bundle of hay,
Mankind are the asses that pull,
Each tugs in a different way—
And the greatest of all is John Bull!”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Letter to Thomas Moore (22 June 1821).