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"The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"Slump, and the world slumps with you. push, and you push alone." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you never budge, don't expect a push." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button." »Sam Levenson
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"The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'." »Unknown
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"I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress." »Manisha Koirala
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"Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"In the e-age, e-wind is any e-push (forwarding, highlighting or repeating) given to your content by others." »Chase LeBlanc
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"You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on." »Charles Manson
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"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable." »Leo C. Rosten
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"push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life." »Zig Ziglar
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"In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office." »Walter Frederick Mondale
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"God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit-Fascist pig this and that-but push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies." »John Gargin
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"The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine." »Martha Beck
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"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough." »Richard M. DeVos
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"There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don’t be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. push it to one side and it creeps to the other." »Isak Dinesen
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"Life may seem overwhelming! Only if you push through everything that is overwhelming you can see the dream that had came true." »Angela S. Butler
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"People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under." »Charles R. Swindoll
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"Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes." »Colonel William Prescott
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"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks." »Francis Bacon
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"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe." »Daisaku Ikeda
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"I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves." »Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
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"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart." »R. Buckminster Fuller
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