Crushed Quotes
344 Crushed quotes by 274 unique authors
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Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that’s bullshit.…
— Unknown Author
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The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being…
— Mitt Romney
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Your whole past hangs around you with nothing completed - because nothing has been lived really, everything somehow bypassed, partially lived, only so-so, in a…
— Rajneesh
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Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
— Zoroaster
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I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that…
— Frederick Douglass
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It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its…
— Frederick Douglass
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Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.
— Francis Parkman
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?
— Oskar Schindler
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I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.
— Melody Beattie
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Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang…
— Vladimir Lenin
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I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the…
— Fleur Adcock
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You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as…
— Joy Williams
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Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.
— Sam Altman
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We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy…
— Thomas Huxley
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I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
— Jon English
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We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
— Elizabeth Kim
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Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the…
— Horace Bushnell
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Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the…
— Oliver Cromwell
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