#puppets

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#being #force #forces #longer #manipulated

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US. ↗

— Jim Henson

#detroit #institute #key #kind #largest

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#fall #instructions #just #kremlin #parliament

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it. ↗

— Paul Winchell

#puppets #real #see #seeing #understand

I hate puppets so much. ↗

— Trey Parker

#i #much #puppets

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#act #again #bill #called #capitol

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#directs #money #motions #puppets #string

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#diet #either #even #fail #feds

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either. ↗

— Katherine Catmull

#birds #dances #dancing #human #magic