Quotes About Crushed Dreams

#1. How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

Ann Voskamp

#2. Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.

Craig Ferguson

#3. I'm not going to end up in some heap of crushed dreams.

Steven Dos Santos

#4. School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

Ivan Pavlov

#5. I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Constance Zimmer

#6. Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

Antonio Damasio

#7. Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.

Brigham Young

#8. Nothing is more irreligious than to persecute the seekers of truth in order to keep up absurdities and superstitions of bygone ages. Nothing is more inhuman than the commission of 'devout cruelty' under the mask of love of God and man.

Kaiten Nukariya

#9. [T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.

Stephen Jay Gould

#10. Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

William Shakespeare

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Thomas Pynchon

#14. Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Nicholas Kristof

#15. 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

#16. The robots, on the other hand, acted like a bunch of youthful dreams and got thoroughly crushed.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. He looked down at the pillow that had fallen to the floor at his feet. "Are you seriously beginning a fight you cannot possibly win, druid?" he asked, his Gwarda green eyes deepening in color from the challenge."
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance

Madison Thorne Grey

#18. Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#19. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Thomas S. Monson

#20. No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Colin Hanks

#21. No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

Don Rittner

#22. Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#23. The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

Lynne McTaggart

#24. As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.

Carly Fiorina

#25. What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.

S. Hunter Nisbet

#26. When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.

Owl City

#27. I should have said no, but if the tech half of the business got himself killed, who would update the website?

Lindsay Buroker