Crushed Quotes
344 quotes by 299 authors
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them…
— Jeff Bridges
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You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue,…
— Nick Clegg
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When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.
— Wes Fesler
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
— Murray Rothbard
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult…
— Erwin Rommel
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward…
— Walt Whitman
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.…
— Clarence Day
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.…
— George Sand
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell…
— Watchman Nee
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When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
— Frank Herbert
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The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in…
— Michael Faraday
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If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of numerous lives. Nobody…
— Rajneesh
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Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;…
— Rudolph Rummel
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It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed…
— Gary Oldman
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(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.
— Yitzhak Shamir
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