Crushed Quotes
344 Crushed quotes by 274 unique authors
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Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom…
— Richard Trumka
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Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats,…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The…
— Che Guevara
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in…
— Agnes Smedley
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Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
— Michael Gove
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
— Carl G. Fisher
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I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people…
— Bill James
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
— Ma Jian
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No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
— Leonard Cohen
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A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand…
— David Lee Roth
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Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our…
— Mary C. Neal
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The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath…
— Robert Burns
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People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and…
— Helen Gurley Brown
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The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed
— Romano Prodi
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The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They…
— Courtney Summers
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You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look…
— Pope Francis
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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
— Al Franken
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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
— Germaine Greer
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When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
— Jennie Finch
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You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by…
— William James
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It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by…
— John Malkovich
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
— Karen Mills
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