Quotes About Your Dreams Being Crushed

#1. God will not make himself manifest to cowards

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. 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

#3. All of your desires, wants, or preferences emanate from you naturally and constantly, for you stand at the Leading Edge of a Universe that makes that so.

Esther Hicks

#4. Above all, I would like to be remembered as a man who was selfless, who strove and worried so that others could share the glory, and who built up a family of people who could hold their heads up high and say 'We're Liverpool'.

Bill Shankly

#5. I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

Carl Erskine

#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. 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

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

Thomas Pynchon

#9. 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

#10. They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care.

Chris Priestley

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

Brandon Sanderson

#12. I shook my head, trying to make sense out of what had happened. As before, no sense came. I completely lost every sense of right and wrong and good and bad. I became this black, suffocating thing, everything I feared in others. I became Javier. I became my father.

Karina Halle

#13. Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

William Rounseville Alger

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

Steven Dos Santos

#15. Light faded into blackness, I was falling and then everything shattered.

J.D. Clair

#16. 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

#17. I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

Jodie Foster

#18. The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Herman Melville

#19. I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.

John Ensign

#20. Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

#21. 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

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

S. Hunter Nisbet

#23. 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

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

Owl City

#25. When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.

Mac DeMarco