Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital. — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car.… — Koushun Takami 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
Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being crushed under the weight of greedy men who believe in nothing. I have to change that. — J-Ax Copy Share Image
After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated with animals and I wanted to go to the zoo all the time. When I got older and… — Marcus Hudson Copy Share Image
Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you.… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
(...)Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol?" "No," Jason said dryly. "She told him that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut… — Josh Tickell 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
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the… — Margaret Atwood 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
My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable… — Jonathan Raymond 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
Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that… — Letty M. Russell Copy Share Image
Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon." "Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug. Percy stifled a laugh. "Actually he's more like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
