Crushing Quotes
199 quotes by 188 authors
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in…
— Julie Burchill
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was…
— Albert Einstein
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Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of those great fortunes.…
— T. K. Seung
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual…
— Walter Karp
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten…
— Ann Patchett
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On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings…
— John Stuart Mill
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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain…
— William Blake
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Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in…
— Charles Eisenstein
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Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start…
— Jennifer Rush
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The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing…
— Robert De Niro
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Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.
— Frank Sinatra
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It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of…
— Ellen Page
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When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a…
— Lotte Lenya
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
— Olivia de Havilland
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The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the…
— Henry Adams
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I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running…
— Mike Tyson
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