Crushing Quotes

199 Crushing quotes by 178 unique authors

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation… — James Lankford
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky… — Tommy Lee
President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand… — Bill O'Reilly
With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life. — Marco Rubio
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated… — Wilma Rudolph
You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in… — Kevin Smith
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's… — Ben Stein
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
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord… — David Wilkerson
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper
I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart. — Richard Yates
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to… — Jean Webster
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless… — Cormac McCarthy
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were… — Thomas Hardy
You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in. — Cassandra Clare
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in… — John Green
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom. — Barbara Mertz
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. — Margaret Atwood
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out… — Cornelia Funke
What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of… — Francesca Lia Block
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place. — Zora Neale Hurston
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered… — Orhan Pamuk

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