Crushing Quotes

199 quotes by 188 authors

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
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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
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
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. — Olivia de Havilland
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
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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