Crush Quotes - Page 6

• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Running, Weed

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• The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Selfish, Lying, Democracies Have

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Distance, Years

  Joseph Stalin (2013). “The Results of the First Five-Year Plan”, Createspace Independent Pub

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• In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.

  Margaret Stohl

  Wheels, Ends

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• Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Boredom, Tourists

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.

  Laini Taylor

  Space, Dancing, Faces

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• I don't think I have any celeb crushes!

  Amanda Michalka

  Thinking, Celebs

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• Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."

  Winston Churchill

  Firsts, Approval, January

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• I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Letting Go, Butterfly, Swimming

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• Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Jobs, Cutting

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

  Hilary Mantel

  Pride, Men, World

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• With my life comes my heart, yours now to crush or cherish as you will. It is my hope you will have a care in keeping both.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Heart, Care, Cherish

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• So, you reap souls and crush hopes? Is that part of the job, or just a service you offer for free?

  Rachel Vincent

  Jobs, Soul, Offers

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.29, Harlequin

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• First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

  Heinrich Heine

  Firsts, Spirit, Ask Me

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• Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.

  Sara Zarr

  Romance, Different, Cameron

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims . . . were working people: janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc. It is likely to prove to be a crushing blow to Palestinians . . . It is also likely to lead to harsh security controls, with many possible ramifications for undermining civil liberties and internal freedom.

  Noam Chomsky

  Blow, People, September 11

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• Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Boys, Night, Men

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.379, A&C Black

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• I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest I was ... when you know a gay guy has a crush on you, it's the most flattering thing.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Gay, People, Guy

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• A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

  Sven Birkerts

  Book, Self, Solitude

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.189, Macmillan

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• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."

  Frederic Farrar

  Prayer, Fall, Two

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• Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

  Rembrandt

  Creativity, Age, Spirit

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• Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Water

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• Shigure Sohma: So, anyway, I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is, if it isn't a problem.
  Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening.
  Shigure Sohma: Hmmm? What's this, Hatori? I don't think I ever heard you sound so eager to come over. Could it be you have a secret crush on Tohru?
  [long silence from the other end of the phone]
  Shigure Sohma: [shouts] I knew it! You naughty, naughty man, you!
  Hatori Sohma: No, I was simply too amazed by your stupidity to say anything.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Cutting, Men, Naughty

  "Fruits Basket". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

  Anais Nin

  Growing, Enormous, Immense

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• The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

  William Ellery Channing

  Hate, Winning, World

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(411 p.)”, p.161

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