Quotes About Being Crushed

#1. A joy-filled workplace gives people the freedom to use their talents and skills for the benefit of society, without being crushed or controlled by autocratic supervisors.

Dennis W. Bakke

#2. 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

#3. He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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

Clare Vanderpool

#5. The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

Erich Fromm

#6. The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people's movements-that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.

Howard Zinn

#7. I'm tired of being crushed under the weight of greedy men who believe in nothing. I have to change that.

J-Ax

#8. But what hope is there for the world, if a nation of penniless peasants can't try to climb up out of the mud without being crushed under the jackboot of Uncle Sam?

Ken Follett

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Melody Beattie

#12. 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

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

Michael Gove

#14. Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life's uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

T. Davis Bunn

#15. The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

Emile Zola

#16. So there goes Jesus spinning power on its head again. His power was not in crushing but in being crushed, triumphing over the empire's sword with his cross. Mustard must be crushed, ground, broken for its power to be released.

Shane Claiborne

#17. The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#18. Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

Peter Diamandis

#19. And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.

Koushun Takami

#20. The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo

Erwin Rommel

#21. The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

Timothy Keller

#22. I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

Gerald Priestland

#23. The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

Anson Mount

#24. He was drowning in the Time, could feel it crushing him, like an ancient forest being crushed into oil.

Neil Gaiman

#25. 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

#26. [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move ...

Olive Schreiner

#27. I wished she'd never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

Gail Carson Levine

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

Joaquin Phoenix

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Catherynne M Valente

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

Maggie Stiefvater

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

Walter Isaacson

#35. You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

Romain Rolland

#36. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

John Hersey

#37. It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Gary Oldman

#38. He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It glows like a coal being slowly crushed into diamond, weighed down by layers and layers of surface.

Lauren Oliver

#39. Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Francis Bacon

#40. I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.

Caroline Myss

#41. From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

Edward Grey

#42. You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
"I like you better this way."
"Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

Maggie Stiefvater

#43. We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

Elisabeth Elliot

#44. Then she spotted in the corner, glowing wonderfully, a Wurlitzer jukebox. ' Holy shit!' It was like being on a commuter train through the Bronx and seeing among the piles of crushed cars a pasture with a lone white horse.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#45. Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.

Sylvia Earle

#46. Okay, how's this? I've been to Heaven and Hell. I've seen the whole world, but the only thing that makes me want to live is this: being inside you. I love you so much. You're all I see.

Debra Anastasia