Crush Quotes - Page 34

• He had a crush on a blueberry bush once.

  Rick Riordan

  Blueberries

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Mouths, Want

  Laini Taylor (2013). “Night of Cake & Puppets”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just like that, without the much-needed explanations. Maybe because things I had learned about him since his death had made me doubt everything he’d ever said to me. Whatever the case, I felt only a hollow, crushing sadness. How touching. I understood my adoptive father’s killer. Maybe after this was over, Hugh’s head and I could sing “Kumbaya” together by the fire.

  Ilona Andrews

  Father, Sadness, Fire

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ache, Stills

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• Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

  Matthew Kelly

  Education, Spirit, Truth Is

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.94, BookBaby

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• 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 has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

  David Wilkerson

  Pain, Godly, Years

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• We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

  Lydia M. Child

  People, Diversity, Forever

  "An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VI, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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• The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Humble, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Men, Tasks

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• It is not worrying, but rather trusting and abiding in the peace of God that will crush anything that Satan tries to do to us. If the Lord created the world out of chaos, He can easily deal with any problem that we have.

  Rick Joyner

  Worry, Trying, Abiding

  Rick Joyner (2011). “High Calling: 50 Days to a Soaring Vision”, p.103, Destiny Image Publishers

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• No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

  Bill W.

  Made, Calamity

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• 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 one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

  Simone Weil

  Sides, Oppression, Made

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

  Harlan Coben

  Heart, World, Eggshells

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Order, Smell

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• Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Difficult Situations, People, Heartache

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1993). “A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise”, Multnomah

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• All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

  Patti LaBelle

  Dream, Heart, Not Good Enough

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Jan 02, 2013

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• In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Want, Like You

  "At Home: Ai Weiwei". Interview with Jamil Anderlini, www.ft.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

  Miriam Makeba

  Nature, Racism, Looks

  "In praise of ... Miriam Makeba", www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  William Graham Sumner

  Class, Organization, Two

  William Graham Sumner (1943). “The Forgotten Man's Almanac: Rations of Common Sense from William Graham Sumner”

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• No. I can quite happily say someone is handsome, good-looking, and I can see why someone would want to f**k them, but I've never felt that way about a man myself. There is that moment in your late teens when you ask yourself the question, 'Am I?' but I wasn'tWell, this year I have a talent crush on Ryan Gosling. I think he's fantastic and(ahem) you know he'd be nice afterwards. He seems smart. If I was gay, I would go for a smart man.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Smart, Nice, Gay

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• Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Rights, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. That’s not being a warmonger. It’s being a realist.

  Allen West

  Girl, School, Gun

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• I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something I’d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.

  Marilyn

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way" by Richard Meryman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

  Richey Edwards

  People, Want, Weak

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