Pushes Away Quotes

#1. Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.

Lola Ridge

#2. In times of shrinking expectations, ... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

Oscar Handlin

#3. Jesus. I just lost our bet." "Yes, you did." "Fuck." "If you insist." He pushes away and runs his hand through his hair.

Leisa Rayven

#4. True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
-Alicia Barnhart

Lysious

#5. Oskar pushes away the blanket. Lies looking down at his naked body. His naked body that will give the lie to any false identity papers he manages to procure. Has anyone, he wonders, ever explained to me the significance of circumcision? Why I have had to sacrifice to God a piece of my sexual organ.

Glenn Haybittle

#6. Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.

John Gray

#7. You are the beauty I've been seeking all my life. My existence was dark, grim, full of struggle, until you. You are the light that pushes the darkness away. When I'm with you, I can see my way, and I can breathe again.

Jennifer Ashley

#8. Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

Joshua Harris

#9. Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.

Ralph Marston

#10. I have a picture of me with Lady Antebellum, when they released their first single and I was at CMA Fest as a fan. I'm in flower-power shorts and a headband - so not cute - and I'm fan-girling next to Hillary. I couldn't believe I was standing next to her.

Kelsea Ballerini

#11. I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.

Kate Zambreno

#12. If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

Erik Bruhn

#13. The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#14. Ezra, the girl you're chasing after doesn't exist. I'm not some bohemian adventurer who takes you on treasure hunts and sends you secret messages. I'm this sad, lonely mess who studies too much and pushes people away and hides in her haunted house.

Robyn Schneider

#15. Books are but steeping stones to show you where other minds have been.

John Muir

#16. A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

#17. There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

Frank O'Hara

#18. But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.

Margaret Atwood

#19. The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

Alan W. Watts

#20. Hope ... which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

Ian Caldwell

#21. The vice minister sets down The Principles of Mechanics and pushes it away, then glances at his palms as though it has made them dirty. He says, "The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines. As soon as he turns fifteen. Same as every other boy in this house.

Anthony Doerr

#22. When there are more males in the industry to begin with, it just has a more male feel, and that pushes the girls away.

Jennifer Pahlka

#23. The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

Charles Henry Fowler

#24. The children are all crying in their pens
and the surf carries their cries away.
They are old men who have seen too much,
their mouths are full of dirty clothes,
the tongues poverty, tears like puss.
The surf pushes their cries back.
Listen.

Anne Sexton

#25. The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

James Cameron

#26. A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

James Rozoff

#27. Please, comrade! I just want to chop him up for the stew!'
'And that's another thing! I'm tired of stew! I want to put him in a crust and bake a light fluffy quiche!'
'QUICHE?! What kind of food is THAT for a monster to eat?!

Jeff Smith

#28. Love is not standing in someone's shadow, it's basking in their light. The blinding strength of your light combined pushes the darkness away.

A.J. Compton

#29. When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.

Alison G. Bailey

#31. I close my eyes as he finger-fucks me. I whimper, groaning his name. "Lorenzo."
Pulling his hand away, he reaches for me, and I open my eyes in just enough time to see it as his fingers brush against my mouth. My lips part, and he pushes his fingers in, the taste of both of us on my tongue.

J.M. Darhower

#32. The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

Renee Ahdieh

#33. As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.

Robert Heilbroner

#34. Clover City is the type of place you leave. It's love that either sucks you in or pushes you away. There are only a few who really make it out and stay out, while the rest of us drink, procreate, and go to church, and that seems to be enough to keep us afloat.

Julie Murphy