Tug Of War Quotes:

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

- Larry Wall

topic: War, Computer, Tug Of War

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

- Robert G. Allen

topic: Dream, War, Heart, Tug Of War

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

- Max Gunther

topic: Sports, War, Giving, Tug Of War

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.

- Shel Silverstein

topic: War, Kissing, Winning, Kisses And Hugs, Giggle

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.

- Sarah Kay

topic: War, Winning, Hands, Tug Of War

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

- Deborah Harkness

topic: War, Two, Impulse, Tug Of War

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.

- Van Jones

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Country, Real, War, Dislocation, Economic Collapse

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.

- John Turner

source: John Turner's speech at Liberal Party Leadership convention at Ottawa Civic Centre in Ontario, April 5, 1968.

topic: War, Excellence, Democracy, Tug Of War

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

- Shel Silverstein

topic: War, Play, Hug, Sidewalk, Tug Of War

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.

- Jodie Foster

topic: War, Interesting, Solitude, Always Alone, Tug Of War

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.

- Aretha Franklin

topic: Letting Go, War, Parent, Tug Of War

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

- Zoe Whittall

topic: War, Creativity, Imagination, Tug Of War

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

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.64, Harper Collins

topic: War, Thinking, Feelings, Tug Of War

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

topic: Veterans Day, Peace, War, Causes Of War, War Cry

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.

- Arielle Ford

source: Arielle Ford (2009). “The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction”, p.14, Harper Collins

topic: Falling In Love, Soulmate, Giving Up, Soulmate Love, Tug Of War

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

- Friedrich August von Hayek

source: "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 18 : The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics, 1973.

topic: War, Government, Pie, Tug Of War

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.

- Lupita Nyong'o

topic: War, Two, Voice, Tug Of War

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

- Robert E. Haebel

topic: War, Marine, Army, Hernias, Tug Of War

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.

- Uma Thurman

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: War, Fighting, Empathy, Gender Inequality, Tug Of War

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.

- Jill Stein

source: "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

topic: War, Fda, Agency, Tug Of War

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.

- Roz Savage

topic: War, Views, Opposites, Scenarios, Tug Of War

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.

- Larry McMurtry

topic: War, Pigs, Blue, Augustus, Rattlesnakes

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.

- Lauren Groff

source: Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

topic: War, Community, Half, Tug Of War

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.

- Kelly Corrigan

topic: Mother, Running, Memories, Tug Of War

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.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: War, America, Imagine, Tug Of War

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

- Henry Mitchell

source: Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.25, Indiana University Press

topic: War, Flower, Garden, May Flowers, Tug Of War

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.

- Rihanna

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Girl, Sex, Teenage, Tug Of War

Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

- Harriet Lerner

source: "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

topic: War, Believe, Fighting, Olive Branches, Disconnection

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.

- Philip K. Jason

topic: War, Passion, Unique, Tug Of War, High Risk

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.

- Dervla Murphy

source: Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.53, The Overlook Press

topic: Country, War, Russia, Tug Of War