Crushing Quotes

199 Crushing quotes by 178 unique authors

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
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
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. — Ronald Reagan
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. — Socrates
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
Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page. — Stephan Pastis
I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. — Gillian Flynn
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
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
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,… — Annie Dillard
All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing… — Jack Newfield
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming… — Jamaica Kincaid
Just a few months ago in the Republican primary Mitt Romney said to his opponents, who he was crushing at the time, stop whining. And… — Stephanie Cutter
Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and… — Barry Eichengreen
Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right… — Jimmy Dean
If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do… — Paul Lockhart
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides… — Ralph Ellison
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors. — George Bernard Shaw
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than… — James Russell Lowell
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek… — Joseph Jaworski
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it? — Jandy Nelson
It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though… — George H. W. Bush
If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it. — Claire Danes
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. — Milan Kundera

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