Crushing Quotes
199 Crushing quotes by 178 unique authors
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work…
— Khalil Gibran
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Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very…
— Jules Feiffer
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I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody...…
— Serinda Swan
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It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told…
— Royal Cortissoz
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Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of…
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
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Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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A crushing hurt comes to our heart and the sympathizing, scarred hand of Christ presses the wound; and just for a moment,the pain seems to…
— Beth Moore
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When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else,…
— Caroline Knapp
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The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.
— Simon Cowell
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy…
— Sigmund Freud
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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the…
— Warren Buffett
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No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.
— Ronald Reagan
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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
— Oscar Wilde
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
— Socrates
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This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and…
— Josiah Warren
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Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.
— Stephan Pastis
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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
— Gillian Flynn
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Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from…
— Hesketh Pearson
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Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction…
— Michel Houellebecq
Who Wrote These Crushing Quotes
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