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• An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

  William Cowper

  Humanity, Reptiles, May

  William Cowper (1826). “Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery”, p.340

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• I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

  Joan Collins

  Baby, Men, Long

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• I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strong, Believe, Hard Work

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• The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Wine, Sorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.455

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• Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

  Russell Baker

  Baseball, Sleep, Games

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• 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, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Growth, Atheism, One Day

  1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

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• Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

  Euripides

  Adversity, Men, Disaster

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

  Paul Davies

  Nature, Stars, Fate

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.65, Basic Books

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• ...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.

  Paul Banks

  Writing, Trying, Levels

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• Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Pay, Next

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• The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

  Max Muller

  Self, Precious Stones, Evil

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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• The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Suffering, Weight, Crosses

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• I think working in the industry, I'd be pretty nervous to have a celebrity crush.

  Bella Heathcote

  Thinking, Nervous, Industry

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Husband, Long, Wife

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.

  Mos Def

  Song, Real, Writing

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.

  Greta Salpeter

  Photography, Song, Book

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• I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

  Lisa Gardner

  Kings, Would Be, Mets

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• Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Good Luck, Vancouver, Mets

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• 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 hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

  Jimmy Dean

  Queens, Revenge, Fighting

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• I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.

  Alexa Vega

  Trying, Kind, Conversation

  "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.

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• I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.

  Greta Salpeter

  Song, Real, House

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• It's been occurring to me I'd like to hang out with you, for my whole life.1

  Taylor Swift

  Whole Life, Hanging Out, Whole

  Song: Stay Stay Stay, Album: Red, 2012

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• I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

  Holly Black

  Hate, Admitting, Want

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• Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Mean, Men, Like You

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Heart, Play, Moments

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