Crush Quotes - Page 24

• I'm going to crush my competition and I'm going to enjoy doing it.

  Omarosa Manigault

  Competition, Enjoy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction.

  Claire Smith

  Sweet, Affliction, Disease

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• Veronica ran out to tell Amber the shocking news - and returned in less than a minute with another message for Yo-Yoji: "Amber says she was watching and she knows you got in detention on purpose," she said breathlessly. "Because you have a crush on Cass!" Cass's ears instantly turned red. Max-Ernest looked like he'd been hit by a truck.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Red, Messages, Max

  "If You're Reading This, It's Too Late". Book by Pseudonymous Bosch, 2008.

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• Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Richard II”, p.82, Courier Dover Publications

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• You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

  Chris Cleave

  Pride, Thinking, May

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Incendiary: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• I took his hand, and suddely he yanked me―too roughly―right off the bed so that I thudded against his chest. "Just in case," he muttered against my hair, crushing me in a bear hug that about to broke my ribs. "Can't―breathe!" I gasped.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hair, Hands, Hug

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• You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, or the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who could crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Giving Up, Forever

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• The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Boys, Eight, Fifty

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• You are not my high school crush, idiot.” “Great. I can die happy, then.

  Rachel Caine

  School, Idiot, Dies

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.338, Penguin

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• I don’t know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash’s demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot.

  Rachel Cohn

  Soul, Comfort, Fingers

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• Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Cancer, Cutting, Love Is

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Quakeland”, p.96, Manic D Press

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• Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the power shifts in your favor giving you more confidence.

  Georgios Christodoulou

  Sweet, Reading, Men

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• As we befriend our crush and get to know him better, make sure that you are honest and true all the time. Do not be someone you are not just to impress him.

  Angus T. Jones

  Sweet, Honest, Impress

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• I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Dream, Sweet, Remember You

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• A horny Igbo girl's nipple can be used to crush diamond

  Pete Edochie

  Girl, Horny, Nipples

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• The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law, since it establishes a legal framework to crush free thinking and interrupt individual questioning of the government. It is the beginning of all dictatorship in America.

  Susan Lindauer

  Thinking, Government, Law

  "Susan Lindauer: Secret Charges and The Patriot Act". Interview with Michael Collins, www.scoop.co.nz. March 10, 2009.

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• I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush.

  Wilhelm II

  War, Believe, Responsibility

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• The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

  Paul Monette

  Secret, Bitter, Problem

  Paul Monette (2014). “Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Greed, Gains

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.507, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Elephants, Stupidity

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

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• On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Army, Past

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• I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Running, Kids

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• It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Names, Flying, Humanity

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• It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Animal, Feelings

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• It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That's not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don't believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can't do it.

  Roger Federer

  Believe, Athlete, Winning

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