Crush Quotes - Page 7

• What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Kids, Age

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• Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to play in with her little stuffed animals. There was pain and crushing disillusionment and betrayal.

  Christine Feehan

  Pain, Betrayal, Believe

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• I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Children, Joy, Progress

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Words can crush things that are unseen.

  Jewel

  Love, Dream, Unseen

  Song: I'm Sensitive, Album: Pieces Of You, 1995

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• A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Army, Enemy

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• i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.

  Maureen Johnson

  New York, Play, Cities

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “13 Little Blue Envelopes”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Nature, Ideas

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 3, 1927.

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• It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one

  Ryohgo Narita

  Dream, Realizing, Easier

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• I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a writer. It can damage successful writers by giving them an exalted sense of what they've done, and it can crush less successful writers by infecting them with envy and malice at an early stage in their careers.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Successful, Careers, Envy

  Interview with The Believer Magazine, staging.believermag.com. March, 2007.

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• Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Simple, Understanding

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.81, Bantam

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• Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Song, Strong, Writing

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• Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Mother, Baby, Trying

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• The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Views, Doubt

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 1, p. 28, 1884.

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• To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

  Dallas Willard

  Disappointment, Toil, Problem

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• ...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

  Bhagat Singh

  Ideas, Individual

  Bhagat Singh, Bhagat (2010). “WOF : Bhagat Singh”, p.41, Penguin Books India

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• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Adversity, Greatness

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest
  crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child.
  Will Ferrell is a man.

  Meryl Streep

  Anchorman, Children, Mean

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• I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn’t write my name on it, but I’m sure he figured out it was me.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Teacher, Writing, Names

  "What Was Jennifer Hudson Like at 17?". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 30, 2011.

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• I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

  Markus Zusak

  Giving, Feelings, Pulse

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Glimpse, Body, Honestly

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• In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

  China Mieville

  Fall, Dark, Journey

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• I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.

  Laurie Holden

  Silly, Fighting, Laughing

  "Laurie Holden Exclusive Interview THE WALKING DEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 1, 2010.

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• I have a crush on Steve Tyler. He's funny, he rocks, and has a voice like a god. There is another one who I have discovered can sing. I should try and make an album with him... it's Barack Obama!

  Lulu

  Voice, Rocks, Trying

  "Lulu: Why I had to dump Bee Gee husband Maurice Gibb over his drinking" by Will Payne, www.mirror.co.uk. May 13, 2012.

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• Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Soul, Religion, Pillars

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• The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

  Arabella Weir

  Actors, Life Is, Unsuccessful

  "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.

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