Crushed Quotes

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.

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

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

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.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

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

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

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

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'

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.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

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.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

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.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.