Pushing Quotes

778 Pushing quotes by 652 unique authors

The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order… — Louise Erdrich
Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life… — Chuck Palahniuk
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that… — Charles de Lint
When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with… — Jeanette Winterson
Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard… — Dean Karnazes
What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White… — Howard Zinn
And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles!… — Victor Hugo
Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and… — Sue Monk Kidd
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.… — Khaled Hosseini
we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we… — Katrina Kenison
Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom… — Francine Rivers
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a… — Graham Chapman
Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine.… — Jennifer Weiner
The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less… — Joanna Macy
My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation… — Camille Paglia
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there… — Richard Dawkins
Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the… — Ian Rankin
You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one… — Joel Osteen
Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help… — James Patterson
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance… — Tom Robbins
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon… — Claudia Gray
But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt,… — Charles de Lint

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