Crushed Quotes

• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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• Even so, one step from my grave,
  I believe that cruelty, spite,
  The powers of darkness will in time
  Be crushed by the spirit of light.

  Boris Pasternak

  Time, Believe, Light

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Jon Stallworthy, Peter France (1983). “Selected poems”, Lane, Allen

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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

  Crush, Sides, Oppression

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

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• Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

  Tommy Wallach

  Nothing To Lose, Dangerous, Loses

  Tommy Wallach (2015). “We All Looked Up”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Law, People, Enemy

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• It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

  Waverley Root

  Food, Destiny, Cooking

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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• In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Soul, Magazines, France

  Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. January, 1998.

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• I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

  Al Franken

  Book, Writing, Responsibility

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• Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

  Jefferson Davis

  Earth, Stills, Seeds

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• I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

  Carnie Wilson

  Children, Moving, Able

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• Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

  William C. Bryant

  Truth, Pain, Errors

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Battle-Field”

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• The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

  Clarence Day

  Life, Real, Fall

  1921 The Crow's Nest,'In His Baby Blue Ship'.

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• Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Taken, Heart

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• A church without the broken is a broken church.

  Ed Stetzer

  Religious, Broken Spirit, Church

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• The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

  George Orwell

  Men, Abiding, Groups

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1302, Penguin UK

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• There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

  Jean Paul

  Flower, Fall, Heaven

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• It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

  John Malkovich

  Able, Given, Mines

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• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

  Ted Nugent

  Crush, War, Evil

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• Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

  Agnes Smedley

  Environment, Made, Inarticulate

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• Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

  Jeff Bridges

  Romantic, Hurt, Shells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

  Jon English

  Heart, Rose, Cups

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• I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "75 Funniest Jokes of All Time". "GQ Magazine", June 1999.

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• He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

  Lech Walesa

  Hands, Historical, Wheels

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• Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

  Germaine Greer

  Brother, Average, Englishmen

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?

  Oskar Schindler

  Dog, Car, Saws

  "Schindler : Why did he do it?" by Louis Bülow, 2010.

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