"Pushful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... certainly," the guest replied. "Directly I go away from here I shall make a list of my most really obstinate, pushful friends to help me." ...
— A Boswell of Baghdad - With Diversions • E. V. Lucas
... and farseeing types. The desire just points to glowing satisfactions and illusions. Quite equally I think the desire of the female for the male ignores its end. Nature has set about this business in a CHEAP sort of way. She is like some pushful advertising tradesman. She isn't frank with us; she just humbugs us into what she wants with us. All very well in the early Stone Age—when the poor dear things never realized that their mutual endearments meant all the troubles and responsibilities of ...
— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells |
