As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
Abu Bakar Bashir

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

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

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
Barry Levinson

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
Garry Shandling

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
William Laud

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
Helena Bonham Carter

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

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer

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

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
Georg Buchner

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

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
Jim Henson

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
Mo Rocca