Quotes with pushed

  • We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
  • Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
  • Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
  • Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Elmer G. Letterman A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
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  • Bill Flores America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Michel Faber I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
    Lelieblank, scharlaken rood (2002)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Dolly Parton I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Brandon Lee If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Lady, I didn't get up this morning wanting to be a jackass...but you just pushed my jackass button.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Richard Marcinko Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.
    Richard Marcinko
    American Navy officer and Vietnam War veteran (1940 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Jack Herbert Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bob Ainsworth Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Bette Davis The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Winston Churchill The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Parry They loved that I put a bone through my nose. They loved that I had my penis pushed back inside me.
    As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
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