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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back -- Robert Quillen
Every day you say 'No' to your dreams, you might be pushing back your dreams a whole 6 months -- Eric Thomas
Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not. -- Robin McKinley
The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true. -- Warren G. Harding
I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay." -- Jen Kirkman
I'm glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I'm a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it's exciting. I hope the high schools adopt the same rule. -- Morgan Wootten
I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball. -- Chris Hayes
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk. -- Henry Rollins
I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it. -- Anne Dudley
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue. -- Sally Ride
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. -- Henry Rollins
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form. -- Billy Collins
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 reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley. -- J. K. Rowling
We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. -- Michael Arad
I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out. -- Brande Roderick
I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back. -- Warren Spector
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. -- Michael Arad
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back. -- Sheryl Swoopes
I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward. -- David Stern
We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back. -- Marsha Blackburn
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. -- Chuck Yeager
Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. -- Elizabeth Warren
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible. -- S. Jay Olshansky
What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about. -- Francis Spufford
I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life. -- Bridgit Mendler
Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right. -- Maajid Nawaz
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different. -- Hillary Scott
Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries. -- Dean Karnazes
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. -- Rita Coolidge
Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley? -- Lisa Edelstein
You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back. -- Jacqueline Woodson
When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. -- Lindsey Vonn
Thinking of holding back is blowing it more than pushing your hardest and falling. -- Dane Reynolds
Pushing away unwanted feelings and situations, equals inviting them to return back with a greater strength. -- Raphael Zernoff
When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest. -- Yvonne Pierre
Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back. -- Jenni Rivera
In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down... -- Tom Petty
Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides. -- Vladimir Putin
Don't turn around. Don't look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Don't turn around. Don't look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can. -- Steve Earle
You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself. -- Jennifer Niven
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in. -- Coleman Barks
I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back. -- Pastor Maldonado

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