Pluck Quotes

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

Life, Mind, Thought

Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Virgil

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
Marquis de Sade

Different, Spring, Same

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
Muhammad Iqbal

Love, Heart, May

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Loren Eiseley

Flower, Star, Troubling

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield

Worth, Luck, Pound

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach

Job, Away, Makes

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.
Emmy Rossum

Mom, Done, Learned

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
Maggie Stiefvater

Love, Focus, Same

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
Peggy Noonan

Love, Moving, Short

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Manfred von Richthofen

Stupidity, Everything, May

Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.
Denise Richards

Real, Everyone, Once

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
George Grosz

Long, Small, Find

I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.
Arizona Muse

Great, Mom, Advice

I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!
Isabelle Fuhrman

Mom, She, Anyone

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.
Piers Corbyn

Die, Before, Last

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