#pull

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. ↗

— John Donne

#creature #eyes #god #himself #his

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#brain #dead #fell #his #lightning

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#because #country #everybody #family #feed

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. ↗

— George Eliot

#down #hour #ignorance #knowledge #pulls

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#down #earner #lift #payer #pulling

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. ↗

— Larry Elder

#benefit #better #connected #disproportionately #elite

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#completely #counts #deal #everything #falls

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. ↗

— Cory Booker

#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you. ↗

— Julius Erving

#people #pulling #vibes #you

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#art #comes #does #draws #ether