Crushed Quotes - Page 8

• Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?

  Clare Vanderpool

  Dream, Weight

  Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.304, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mind, Want, Easy

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.220, Penguin

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• In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Running, Spiritual, Passion

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• Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.” Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Grace, Said, Sam Roth

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.287, Scholastic Inc.

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• Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Doe

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.25, Xist Publishing

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• My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between the different eras of his life always crushed my brain on some level. That this guy who was shoveling carob chips out of a barrel and restocking yogurt popsicles could also have those numbers on his arm. It was an inconceivable juxtaposition. His experience was the main window for our family into any kind of social consciousness, or sense of history, or politics, even though a lot of it went unsaid.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Holocaust, Guy, Brain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!

  Simon Cowell

  Beats

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• How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

  Thomas Hardy

  Destiny, Heaven, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Return of the Native: Easyread Edition”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Book, Boys

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.50, Vintage

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• People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering why they are dissatisfied when they have four of the ten boxes checked.

  Steve Almond

  Expectations, People, Wonder

  Source: wbur.org

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• Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Wall, Guy

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “In Her Shoes”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Night, June

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.286, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Hands, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!

  William C. Bryant

  Earth

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

  Emily Mortimer

  Jobs, Fun, Years

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• In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

  Karen Mills

  October, Credit, Small Business

  "Questioning The SBA: Karen Mills Fields Questions From Our Board Of Directors". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

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• You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mistake, School, Language

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

  Pope Francis

  Memories, Past, Church

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mother, Elevators, Adolescence

  "Q & A : Hollywood Times Three : Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher discuss Hollywood families, not-so-fictional novels--and baby Billie's there to chaperone". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. April 24, 1994.

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• The thing to remember is that Donald Trump didn't rescue the Republican Party, he crushed the Republican Party. The Republican Party was so weak that an outsider came along and just wiped it out.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Party, Outsiders, Remember

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• Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they are common in economics departments. Exemplifying the homo economicus paradigm, economists typically choose their research projects and hypotheses so as to promote their own careers, to maximize their lifetime income. This explains the astonishing pressures toward conformity in academic economics: how deviant views (except those by a few who have already achieved stardom) get crushed by an army of conformists.

  Thomas Pogge

  Army, Views, Careers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.

  Kristin Cashore

  Heart, Hard, Hard Things

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.157, Penguin

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• at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Stars, Laughter, Love You

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

  Jodi Picoult

  Tattoo, Art, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our government. It's like, come on, why is this scary? Jesus, every generation before you was willing to kick ass.

  Cody Wilson

  Jesus, Father, Government

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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