#pulling

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#apart #being #choices #democracy #excuses

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#against #became #black #broken #came

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#scales #self-delusion #step #stomach #you

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. ↗

— David Eagleman

#based #behavioural #change #constructed #difference

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#danger #desperate #fear #had #how

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#each #every #guy #helping #hockey

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#brain #coffee #doing #even #feel

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#age #australian #band #brothers #bunch

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#accident #art #happen #just #new

Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business. ↗

— Al Smith

#american #blackberry #business #corporate #corporate america