The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
David McCullough

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.
Pete du Pont

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
Florence Kelley

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
Tobias Wolff

They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.
Gray Davis

This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.
Jack Kingston

This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away.
Kenneth Rexroth

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.
Kip Winger

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
Randy Bachman

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
Lawrence Hargrave

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
Jude Law

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
Simone Weil

We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.
Phil Condit

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.
Jim Allchin

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
Johnny Thunders

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
Carl Levin

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.
Dave Haywood