Crushed Quotes
344 Crushed quotes by 274 unique authors
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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
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
— Ted Nugent
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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
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I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
— Emo Philips
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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
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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
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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
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
— Mark Twain
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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
— Lech Walesa
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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
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I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.
— Carnie Wilson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
— Simon Cowell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
— Jim Crace
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I pushed my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand crushed bleeding lips pushed back at me...
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
Who Wrote These Crushed Quotes
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