A Quote by Jodi Picoult

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
American - Author
Born: May 19, 1966

Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Constance Marie

I'm a competitive guy. So when push comes to shove when I'm in the cage, I always push to my limits to get the victory because that's who I am.

Rory MacDonald

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."

Gwen Stefani

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

Leila Slimani

I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

Nick Hornby

We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet.

Jeff Corwin

I never meant to push or shove you. Do you know how much I love you?

Hal Ketchum

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Peter Hammill

I don't know much, But when push comes to shove, I definitely don't believe, There's such a thing as wrong love.

Chris Colfer

Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch.

Meg Cabot

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

Natalie Wood

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Dan Simmons

When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.

Marianne Lake

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

Scott Turow

For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

Washed Out

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

Luigi Pirandello

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