Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.
I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war
You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.
If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.
I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant 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.
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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.
That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
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.
In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.
I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.
If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.
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.