I'm not mad, Mason. I am crushed. Acting mad makes it…

“I'm sorry, too,' she said. 'For what?' 'For acting mad at you all the time.' 'It's okay,' he said, 'sometimes I like it.' 'But…

— Rainbow Rowell

At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled;…

— Aldous Huxley

It will always hurt to be laughed at, snubbed, ignored or attacked by others. But I would remind you that the human personality grows…

— James Dobson

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark…

— Frederick Douglass

It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our government. It's…

— Cody Wilson

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

— Bryant H. McGill

I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice…

— Lynda Barry

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the…

— George Orwell

Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

— Al Franken

The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and…

— Howard Zinn

When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start…

— Jean Vanier

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing,…

— Barry Schwartz

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls…

— Charlotte Bronte