Crushed Quotes

#1. We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

Jim Caviezel

#2. I wasn't exactly known for self-confidence, but I could taste the cake in my mind. Strong. Earthy. Fragrant. I remembered the nose-prickling aroma of cinnamon when it comes in fragile curls, and the startling power of crushed cloves.

Ruth Reichl

#3. You have been disappointed,you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made- they are assets of incomparable value.

Napoleon Hill

#4. She'd pushed it down, crushed it beneath the weight of stubborn determination, but still it haunted her at night, when such terrors shamble from their dens to torment innocent insomniacs.

Ari Marmell

#5. I thought of you once as an angel... truthful and devoted. But you were born with sinister hands, so evil that you crushed your own wings. And now, my little angel will never fly.

Aven Jayce

#6. Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.

David Letterman

#7. 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

#8. Perhaps memory is like a bucket; if you want to cram into it more fruit than it will hold, the fruit is crushed.

Primo Levi

#9. In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.

Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea

James J. Houts

#10. But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.

Clarice Lispector

#11. The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

Roger Housden

#12. And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

Rufus Wainwright

#13. Every single time you looked at me, through the corner of your eye and smiled. My heart pushed the ribs with all the force towards my lungs, until it got crushed and I could not breathe anymore.

Akshay Vasu

#14. My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

Brian Andreas

#15. 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

#16. It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. I can do this.

Rick Riordan

#17. One girl came up to me - I remember it so vividly - she said, "You're not fit to model socks." It crushed me. But at the same time, it made me unbelievably determined to prove everybody wrong and prove to myself that I could live an incredible life.

Karen Elson

#18. Plover's words were like dried flowers, stiff and crumbling, crushed flat between pages, when we'd had the living, blooming blossoms all around

Lev Grossman

#19. Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever.

J.D. Robb

#20. My last moments on earth would be spent in a Golden Nugget bathtub with crushed beer cans scattered across my faux Venetian tile and acrylic bearskin rug.

Lindsay Mark Lewis

#21. I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.

Joaquin Phoenix

#22. Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries."
I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the
Lord's work and all.

James Patterson

#23. Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

Francis Parkman

#24. The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

W. Edwards Deming

#25. Sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer, and in their search crushed others, perhaps even her; but she could not be crushed, for she had the answer.

Ayn Rand

#26. A brick could be crushed into powder, like cocaine, and snorted to stimulate the previous highs of the housing market.

Jarod Kintz

#27. There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

Mark Kurlansky

#28. Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house?

Thomas Pynchon

#29. I tried telling myself it wasn't because of me, but there are some thoughts that live in your mind like a chronic disease. You think you've finally crushed them, only to find them morphing into something newer, darker.

Alexandra Bracken

#30. The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

Matthew Arnold

#31. once you start running and apply the mathematics of change, suddenly this insurmountable distance gets crushed under the curve of motion.

Sam A. Patel

#32. The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men and worlds.

Isaac Asimov

#33. I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the sufferings of others I also have for my own. And so all my suffering is crushed under the foot of my disdain.

Fernando Pessoa

#34. For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#35. I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

Ilona Andrews

#36. One loose rivet or cracked weld line would have been enough to allow a few atmospheres to squirt out, and the ship would have been crushed like a soda can in the hand of a giant who was immensely strong and didn't like soda cans.

Eoin Colfer

#37. Shut it, Flynn. Just ... oh God, you've been impossible to evict, because possession is nine-tenths of the law. You're inside me. A part of me. But you pulled me close with one hand and crushed my heart with the other, and I can't go through that again.

Kate Meader

#38. Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Andrew Forrest

#39. It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.

Jay Posey

#40. I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

Bill James

#41. Absence has presence, sometimes, and that was what she felt. Absence like crushed-dead grass were something has been and is no longer. Absence where a thread has been ripped, ragged, from a tapestry, leaving a gap that can never be mended.

Laini Taylor

#42. Perhaps my favorite quote on forgiveness is from Mark Twain: Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds, on the heel that has crushed it.

Wayne W. Dyer

#43. The impact hit her like a physical blow. He was ... "Beautiful." Eyes of such pure undiluted blue it was as if some heavenly artist had crushed sapphires into his paints and then colored in the irises with the finest of brushes.

Nalini Singh

#44. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see anything but contentment in a crushed population.

Sinclair Lewis

#45. 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

#46. He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. "I miss you," Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

Erin Morgenstern

#47. St. Clair!" Josh springs from his seat, and they give each other the classic two-thumps-on-the-back guy hug.
"No kiss? I'm crushed, mate.

Stephanie Perkins

#48. At the cross of Christ, God shows the full expression of both his wrath and his love, as Jesus is stricken, smitten, afflicted, wounded, crushed, and chastised for the sake of sinners.

David Platt

#49. The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#50. I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

Melody Beattie

#51. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. (Isa. 53:5)

Angie Smith

#52. You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

Khalil Gibran

#53. 8we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; 9persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

Anonymous

#54. We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.

Marita Golden

#55. 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

#56. Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Jon English

#58. I crushed high school. I was a huge dork.

Alex Honnold

#59. Don't be crushed under the oncoming tide of adversity that moves in to test your faith. Make sure that your foundation is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Be ready for the storms of life and move forward in a confidence that cannot be shaken by the strong winds of hardship.

Calvin W. Allison

#60. Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Ben Jonson

#61. (The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.

Yitzhak Shamir

#62. When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#63. Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

Walker Evans

#64. If the worst is a possibility, then you keep it on the table. Don't hide from it. Don't run. It can happen. And if and when it does, you need to have thought about it ahead of time. That way you're not crushed when your worst thought becomes your reality.

Charles Martin

#65. Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn't solve anything ... I don't like yelling and fighting and I can't quarrel, I prefer to let it drop ... When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.

Grace Kelly

#66. A brick could be crushed, mixed with water, and drunk like a sports drink. And hey, with no bromated vegetable oil, it's healthier than Gatorade.

Jarod Kintz

#67. Out of all the things that look & bleed, the most bruised is a man who has seen his dreams crushed and experienced miserable hopelessness.

Parul Wadhwa

#68. I survived my fall down the ravine. I survived the implosion of Ashwood Estates. I wasn't even conscious then, and Malcolm said something kept us from being crushed, that it was as if some force kept us safe as the world fell down around us. Third time's the charm.

Pittacus Lore

#69. I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.

Mario Cuomo

#70. It was the continuance of things that crushed her already broken heart. The gears of the world turning on while she lived with his absence like a black tumor in her chest, the grief so potent she could barely bring herself to breathe.

Blake Crouch

#71. I've got to bring it 'cause they're going to compare me to that Taylor [Lautner] kid, and if I don't bring it, I'm just going to get crushed.

Michael Trevino

#72. Seeds pour out oil when pressed.
Grapes pour out wine when squeezed.
Herbs pour out medicine when pounded.
Flowers pour out perfume when crushed.
The gifted pour out excellence when tested.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#73. If prison had taught him one thing, it was that beautiful things were crushed - and perfect things didn't exist at all.

Katie Porter

#74. Crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

Jim Crace

#75. There is profound responsibility in being Love ... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.

Adyashanti

#76. Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

Sam Altman

#77. They crushed the ship between them with a resonant boom, sending debris flying. Jesper screamed in rage and raised his guns.

Leigh Bardugo

#78. God, Himself, could have ripped the heart out of my chest and crushed it in His mighty grip and that pain would have paled in comparison to this. Abby crumbled to the floor and cried, splitting me apart. I stumbled out the door and just left her there to suffer.

Ashlan Thomas

#79. As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

Lynda Barry

#80. The ultimate weakenss of a man is when his spirit is crushed with no hope rather than how disable or handicapped he is .

Rudzani Ralph

#81. I'm sort of a carb-oholic. I love pasta, and I know it's really simple, but I love pasta with olive oil and crushed red pepper and maybe some Parmesan. I don't really eat cheese anymore, but that would be my favorite. I love a tri colore salad - it's my favorite.

Judy Greer

#82. Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#83. Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something."
Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

Maggie Stiefvater

#84. Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.

James Joyce

#85. The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.

Catherynne M Valente

#86. The beauty of my passion had been crushed under the weight of my horrific past.

Anne Tibbets

#87. 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

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

Charlotte Bronte

#89. Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

Michael Gove

#90. For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what they have been through. There are times and places, however, when all of us depend on people who have been hardened by their experiences.

Malcolm Gladwell

#91. No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity

Seneca.

#92. People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.

Walter Isaacson

#93. When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.

Wes Fesler

#94. Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave.

Brandi L. Bates

#95. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

Maggie Stiefvater

#96. To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef Trust. They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people. Chapter 29, pg. 376

Upton Sinclair

#97. Could we please not assault the patient with the crushed spinal cord," she said as she did, "because this makes me very uncomfortable.

James S.A. Corey

#98. Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

Lucretius

#99. I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater.

Demetri Martin

#100. Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

Martin Luther King Jr.