Crush Quotes - Page 36

• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."

  Walter Karp

  Creativity, School, Exercise

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• The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Trying, True Nature

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1777, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Liberty, Despotism

  On Liberty ch. 3 (1859)

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• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  David Viscott

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

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• Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Song, Sweet

  Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

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• All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Depression, Letting Go, Moving

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• This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Believe, Mean

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Years, People, Needs

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• I’ve always had a big crush on Arjun Rampal. He’s so damn good looking

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Looking Good, Bigs, Damn

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• Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start to wake from a dream you don't want to leave. That crushing sensation in the center of your chest, like you are losing an important piece of yourself you won't ever get back.

  Jennifer Rush

  Dream, Echoes, Feelings

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• I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Depression, Black, Trying

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Heart, Climbing, Confusion

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• Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.

  David Foster Wallace

  Gratitude, Lying, Golf

  "Will David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Be the Most Boring Book Ever?" by Lane Brown, www.vulture.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Integrity, Patriotic, Night

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• In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Sad, Depression, Pain

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• 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 meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.

  Jean Webster

  Character, Winning, Thinking

  Jean Webster (2012). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

  Malcolm X

  Compassion, People, Weight

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beer, Earth, Matter

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• I can still hear the words you whispered when you told me I can stay right here forever in your arms from Forever and for Always

  Shania Twain

  Love, Forever, Arms

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• The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Bounds

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Powerful, Men, Tanks

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Army

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• I kicked off my shoes and pulled his hand away from the wheel so I could straddle his lap and hold him. His grip on me was excruciatingly tight, but I didn't complain. We were on an insanely busy street, with endless cars rumbling past on one side and a crush of pedestrians on the other, but neither of us cared. He was shaking violently, as if he were sobbing uncontrollably, but he made no sound and shed no tears. The sky cried for him, the rain coming down hard and angry, steaming off the ground.

  Sylvia Day

  Rain, Past, Hands

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.499, Penguin

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• If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

  James Earl Jones

  Encounters, Littles, Little Things

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• Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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