The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“She is ready to die unloved, covered in the golden dust of crushed Cheetos. She is ready for her loneliness to enter… — Elizabeth Tan Copy Share Image
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be-… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Thank you,’ said Rover, feeling crushed. ‘It is very kind of all these wizards to trouble themselves about me, I am sure,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
I'm trying my best not to get attached to you because I know you're leaving soon and I'll be crushed, but when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I just want to be happily in love with you, I want you to feel the way you did before, I want… — Winona Cruz Copy Share Image
Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I thought he actually liked me. I was so wrong. now I'm crushed. this is why I hate life so much. someone… — Patience Copy Share Image
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time… there was a boy named Cole St. Clair, and he could do anything. And the weight of that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead...… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Moving back to Nz simply cause I can and cause my life here is now gone :/ leaving my two girls will… — Talyiah Copy Share Image
While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I remember, with Kendrick on 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' I was in tears. I literally was because it had pulled me and… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
“My heart is crushed within me. Here is the truth: You made me love you- your eyes and mouth and voice. You… — Ashley Herring Blake Copy Share Image
That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
My love for you was so true, you know that I would never forget you, But now my heart is crushed and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“Despite their authoritarian light show, those ice-cream trucks of death couldn't do any more for Perkus's murdered infatuation, his crushed crush, than… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could… — Edward Grey Copy Share Image
“I desire her and I hate her. I would like to take her in my arms and embrace her till she smothered,… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it.… — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image