Crush Quotes - Page 22

• wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Wealth, Outrage

  Emma Goldman (1969). “Anarchism: And Other Essays”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Selfish, Silly

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

  Ellen Willis

  Zero, Mistake, Teaching

  "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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• I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Real, People, Want

  "Ashley Tisdale Talks About Her Debut Album and Her Life". Upstar Magazine, 2008.

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• If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.

  John C. Dvorak

  Apples, Competition, Inability

  "Apple's Swan Song". www.pcmag.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.

  Fred Hammond

  Hands, Play, Broken

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• Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hug, Church, Trying

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• Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.

  Mark Oliver

  Struggle, Past, Thinking

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• The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.

  Gary North

  Mean, Rocks, Symbolism

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• It's malarkey. When you tell people that the roof crushing in on your head is not the cause of injury, it's your head hitting the roof, it's laughable.

  Joan Claybrook

  People, Hitting, Causes

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• God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

  Oswald Chambers

  Wine, Use, Fingers

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.23, Discovery House

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• As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him, too. One day he said to me, 'I like your best friend more because she's paler and she has freckles.' And it was right then that I began to feel like, Oh wow, I'm different.

  America Ferrera

  I Like You, Boys, Feelings

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• Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again - I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Revenge, Feelings, Forgiving

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1964). “Shelley in England”

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• Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

  Honore de Balzac

  Shy, Persons, Timidity

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• What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

  Joseph Addison

  Fear, Men, Care

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• My first crush was my brothers best friend.

  J. Lynn

  Brother, Firsts, My Brother

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• Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Kissing, Boys

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• He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.

  Cassandra Clare

  Powerful, Glasses, Sea

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America! If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way ... and our nation will pay a terrible price!

  Jerry Falwell

  Children, Men, America

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• The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

  Corinne Bailey Rae

  Sea, Majestic, Break

  Song: The Sea, Album: The Sea, 2010

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• ...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Winning, Awards, Elderly

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2006). “Notes from the Midnight Driver”

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• Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Ideas, Trying

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.187, The Floating Press

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• We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Who I Am, Expression

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• And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

  Mark Twain

  War, Race, Europe

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.143, Diderot Publishing

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• If we are to survive the Atomic Age, we must have something to live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the world's conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great monosyllables of life: faith, hope and love. Men must live by these if they live at all under the crushing weight of history.

  O. P. Kretzmann

  Faith, Fear, Hate

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