#pushes

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. ↗

— Washington Irving

#his #idol #our #out #pushes

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#back #bounce #down #far #how

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#building #category #destroyers #drags #human

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#air #back #comes #effect #face

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#food #into #machine #mouth #pushes

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#being #cartoon #dark #decent #decent people

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#audience #back #buy #dialogue #halts

In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#engine #extra #front #going #help

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#enough #eternally #fed #get #ghetto