Best Tug Of War Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A wrestling match.. Yes, you could describe life that way." So which side wins, I ask? He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. "Love wins. Love always wins.”

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Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“Living was a tug of war, and dying was a piece of cake.”

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Book:Stamerenophobia

Source: Stamerenophobia

“Sanity is a never-ending tug of war between oneself, pulling one’s attention towards happiness, and one’s mind, pulling it towards unhappiness.”

Happiness Attention Focus Meditation Insane Insanity Unhappiness Sanity Sane Tug Of War

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“From the Holy Grail my lips, they lust a little more. Smoky grapes, Cabernet, I sense a tug of war”

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Book:Letter 19

Source: Letter 19

“I HOLD TO THE 'NAUGHTY' IN ANY TUG-OF-WAR”

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Book:The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“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.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“After a few (or many) bad relationships, its so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist its not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. Its as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, Ill never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.”

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.”

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Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.”

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Author:Rihanna

“Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.”

Ifs Mind Heart War Dream Winning Loses Creating Your Dreams Tug Of War

Author:Robert G. Allen

“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.”

Ifs War Seems Individual Community Half Century Tug Of War

Author:Lauren Groff

“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.”

Long War Particular Agency Vaccines Fda Tug Of War

Author:Jill Stein

“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.”

War States America Imagine Higher Masculinity Macho Tug Of War

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.”

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Author:Van Jones

“One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.”

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Author:Uma Thurman

“I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's a tug-of-war between two voices: the one who knows she can and the one who's scared she can't.”

Knows Wells I Can Two War Voice Scared Exception Tug Of War

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“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.”

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Author:Shel Silverstein

“This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.”

“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.”

War Bigs Fine Eating Blue Ran Shade Pigs Crawling Porch Augustus Rattlesnakes Tug Of War

Book:Lonesome Dove: A Novel

Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel

“It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.”

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Book:All Souls Trilogy

Source: All Souls Trilogy

“I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.”

Thinking War Feelings Used One Thing Constant Tug Of War

Book:Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

“If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.”

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Author:Max Gunther

“So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.”

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Author:Roz Savage

“That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”

War Matter Feelings Imagination Creativity Messy Erase Tug Of War

Author:Zoe Whittall

“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.”

War Certain Democracy Achieve Policy Excellence Canada Tug Of War

Author:John Turner

“There never was a good war or a bad revolution.”

Source: The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel

“Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.”

Ifs War Pay Army Fixed Marine Marine Corps Tug Of War Hernias

Author:Robert E. Haebel

“Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue smoldering. With Hope's Folly, Linnea Sinclair builds on a secure reputation as a leading fashioner of science fiction romance. She straddles and blends these genres with a unique bravura and wit.”

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Author:Philip K. Jason

“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.”

Trying War Certain Easy Parent Amount Letting Go Tug Of War

Author:Aretha Franklin

“I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war”

War Play Resolution Hug Sidewalk Tug Of War

Author:Shel Silverstein

“Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.”

War Computer Tug Of War

Author:Larry Wall