Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Pull
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don’t want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter.
China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It’s an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don’t see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.
You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don’t succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.
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.