Quotes about tug (16 Quotes)


    (Wolff) took a touch inside and I slid with my left foot and I thought I had it right underneath me but somehow it popped out, unfortunately right to his feet and he was in. I was trying to catch up and, you know, I gave him a little tug to try and get him a little off balance before he took a shot but as soon as he felt it he just went down.


    I think there's a tug of war going on between the robust economy and its positive impact on earnings and the fact that it's likely the Fed's going to raise rates some more, ... We still a have a policy here that small aggressive investors maintain a pretty heavy waiting in stocks. We always recommend a balanced portfolio.


    I think the guys here love basketball as much as they love anything else. The deal is there's a lot of diversity up here. There's a lot of interests pulling at you. There are other sports that tug at different athletes. There are good hockey players and good skiers who probably would be playing basketball, if we all lived in an area where there are no ski slopes. But that's the way it is.



    It was Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union and father of global communism, who once said capitalists would give communists the technical, material and financial help they need to prevail in their ideological tug of war with the world's democracies. To put it in other words, ... they will work on the preparation of their own suicide.

    This case is important to law schools some of which initiated the legal challenge and, because it is, a lot of people will pay attention. This is a tug of war between Congress and the people who receive its money.

    In the video business moving on, this is going to be something of a tug of war for the reasons that protecting the artists right is not something that should be automatically dismissed by the push-and-pull generation.


    In the history of the Rome Center, there's always been a kind of tug between Chicago and Rome, ... The people who are in charge of the Rome Center feel as though they're under constraints from Chicago and the people in Chicago want to treat the Rome Center as if that's an extension of our school here.... If it's true that no full-time faculty are going over there at all ... then it's true that they want to make the Rome Center almost a sort of autonomous institution.

    We've had a tug of war between fundamentals and geopolitical worries. It doesn't look like Iran will take any action soon, so the attention of the market is tilting to the inventories. There's a surfeit of oil available on the world market.

    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.

    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.

    This is the time for you and I together to set our sights on what is possible, what we can do together, ... It's time for us to quiet the skeptics, to lift the voices of those who want to strive, to seek, to never yield on these moral issues that tug at the soul of this country.

    This is really not me. No, but it works. I mean, I can't complain. I'm playing in the Super Bowl. The bigger story is what I'm going to say next. That's the only reason why I have people waiting for me right now. They feel like they're going to tug and tug until he breaks. But it's not going to happen. I'm not going to give you anything special, but to answer these questions, one at a time.



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