Crushed Quotes

344 Crushed quotes by 274 unique authors

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles… — Emily Mortimer
War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you. — Ted Nugent
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. — Jean Paul
I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!' — Emo Philips
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but… — Mitt Romney
I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of… — Kevin Rudd
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. — Mark Twain
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. — Lech Walesa
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless… — Simone Weil
I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead. — Carnie Wilson
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
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 of the toilet… — Jennifer Weiner
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it… — Joe Strummer
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight… — Dave Eggers
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,… — Thomas Hardy
You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition! — Simon Cowell
Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free… — Marcus Aurelius
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed… — Ivan Turgenev
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their… — Margaret Atwood
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair,… — Vladimir Nabokov
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back. — Jim Crace
I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me... — Laurie Halse Anderson
I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was… — Kelley Armstrong

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