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«Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.»
«Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.»
Author: Mason Cooley | Keywords: praying, pushing
«Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.»
Author: Robert Quillen | Keywords: pushing, push back
«Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.»
«He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!»
«A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb»
«A man loses his fortune; he gains earnestness. His eyesight goes; it leads him to a spirituality. The girl loses her beauty; she becomes more sympathetic. We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.»
«Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?»
«He's pushing up the daisies»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: pushing
«He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence»

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