Quotes About A Crushed Spirit

#1. A man's spirit will endure sickness, but p a crushed spirit who can bear?

Anonymous

#2. The only true disability is a crushed spirit

Aimee Mullins

#3. In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#4. Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.

Mary C. Neal

#5. 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

#6. They came with a Bible and their religion- stole our land, crushed our spirit ... and now tell us we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved. Chief Pontiac, American Indian Chieftain

George Washington

#7. Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

Moby

#8. 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

#9. If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

Kevin Hart

#10. 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

#11. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

Frederick Douglass

#12. 17The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. 18The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Anonymous

#13. Dean, having worked with Dad longer, was used to taking orders. More than that, he seemed to thrive on it, as if Dad had crushed the independent spirit he'd been born with.

Jeffrey J. Mariotte

#14. If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats.

Chrissie Wellington

#15. Victims have succumbed to defeat, and their spirit has been conquered and crushed. We survivors are fearless gladiators, and our spirit can never be broken.

Robert Palasciano

#16. I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

Steve Carell

#17. I love sushi. Once on Valentine's Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much.

Ella Eyre

#18. May the Lord revive the crushed spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.

Irene Hannon

#20. He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.

Ben Dyer

#21. He had conceded in a panic - for it crushed Nilssen's spirit to be held in low esteem by other men. He could not bear to know that he was disliked, for to him there was no real difference between being disliked, and being dislikeable; every injury he sustained was an injury to his very selfhood.

Eleanor Catton

#22. Valentine's Day is an extraordinary moment for recalling the lasting power of a true love.

M.F. Moonzajer

#23. May the crushed spirit revived.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies

Margaret Atwood

#25. Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#26. Does that mean you agree?"
He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down."
"Fantastic.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

S.A. Tawks

#28. This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

Kenneth Clark

#29. There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

Dave Matthews

#30. I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?

Annie Barrows

#31. Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#32. I left proud, but with my spirit crushed.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#33. Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

Thomas McGuane

#34. Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.

Joey Badass

#35. The most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit.

Chang-rae Lee

#36. Let go of the labels that confine you. Be who you are. The unique person you were born to be!

Raven Williams

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

Carnie Wilson

#38. There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

Richard Widmark

#39. There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.

John S. Hall

#40. An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on
me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me
shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.

Martin McDonagh

#41. Look in at the Drones and ask the first fellow you meet 'Can the fine spirit of the Woosters be crushed?' and he will offer you attractive odds against such a contingency.

P.G. Wodehouse