Crush Quotes - Page 37

• If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.

  Richard Branson

  Lying, Competition, Survival

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• I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.

  Chris Hedges

  Party, Two, Evil

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• A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Feelings, Mind, Weight

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is a damnable, crushing, despair-breedin g, Pharisee-produc ing law.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Jesus, Kids, Law

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• During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

  Craig Ferguson

  War, Texas, People

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• Don’t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pride, Broken, Waiting

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• It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

  Max Arthur Macauliffe

  Struggle, Wind, Worry

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• The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Ocean, Fighting, Moon

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I'm falling into you This dream could come true And it feels so good falling into you from If You Asked Me To

  Diane Warren

  Love, Dream, Fall

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• If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

  Claire Danes

  Soul, Passionate, Littles

  "The secret diary of Claire Danes" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Feelings, Enemy, Lasts

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.57, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Valentines Day, Girlfriend

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• A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

  Billie Holiday

  Love, Music, Kissing

  Song: For All We Know

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• We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Light, Shells, Safe

  "Zen Miracles : Finding Peace in an Insane World" by Brenda Shoshanna, (p. 80), 2002.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

  Julia Roberts

  Children, Abraham, Knows

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• When the world wants too much
  And it feels cold and out of touch
  It's a beautiful place
  When you kiss my face
  from The Woman In Me

  Shania Twain

  Love, Beautiful, Kissing

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• Once more you open the door and you're here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on.

  Will Jennings

  Love, Heart, Doors

  "Song: "My Heart Will Go On"". 1997.

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• Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful "who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.

  Pope Pius X

  Religious, Powerful, Sky

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Popes and the Papacy" by Brandon Toropov, (p. 26), 2001.

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• You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.

  Mark Driscoll

  Running, Jesus, Hate

  "Jesus Took Our Wrath (Propitiation),". Sermon preached at Mars Hill Church, November 6, 2005.

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• If you asked me to I'd let you in my life forever. from If You Asked Me To

  Diane Warren

  Love, Forever, Ifs

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• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

  Class, Reform, Weight

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• Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

  Vasily Grossman

  Kindness, Struggle, Evil

  "Zbigniew Herbert, Vasily Grossman, and 'a small kernel of human kindness'" by Cynthia Haven, Stanford University blog, bookhaven.stanford.edu. August 2018.

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• We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.

  Jean Vanier

  Light, Shining, Process

  Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.16, Paulist Press

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• He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Love, Kissing, Long

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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