#shove

When I found him lying in the ditch holding a shovel, I thought he was sleeping on the job. Turns out he was being even lazier, and he was in fact dead. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #ditch #find #found #job

You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#dream #hills #israelmore-ayivor #pothole #pray-god

It's easy to think that people will like you more if you do whatever they tell you to do, but it's quite the opposite. People don't appreciate pushovers - they use them. ↗

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

#like #love #pushover #inspirational

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#even #fireworks #i #i do #i think

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#class #depends #digging #economy #george

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! ↗

— Morris West

#cage #drunk #ever #god #greeks

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great

When push comes to shove, I’m going to figure out that this door needs to be pulled to be opened. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#door #figure #figure-out #funny #humor

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#calories #cheat #could #day #drop

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#her #lot #national #national politics #other