Crushes Quotes
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I look at an ant and see myself: a native South African, endowed with a strength much greater than my size, so I might cope with the weight of racism that crushes my spirit.
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More Crushes Quotes
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
— Christian Non-Resistance: In All its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended (1846)
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.
taisen deshimaru— As quoted in Zen Miracles : Finding Peace in an Insane World (2002) by Brenda Shoshanna, p. 80
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
h. rider haggard— Allan Quatermain (1887), INTRODUCTION
I want people to know that I’m a real person, and that I’ve been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.
ashley tisdale— "Ashley Tisdale talks about her debut album and her life". Upstar Magazine. Retrieved on November 21, 2008.
— On her debut album Headstrong. (2007)
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
bertolt brecht— "General, Your Tank Is a Powerful Vehicle", in "From a German War Primer", part of the Svendborg Poems (1939); as translated by Lee Baxandall in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 289
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
jean-paul sartre— Act 2, sc. 4
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.
paul valéry— History and Politics (1971, translated by D. Folliot and J. Mathews)
Let one unceasing, earnest prayer Be, too, for light, for strength to bear Our portion of the weight of care, That crushes into dumb despair One half the human race.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Goblet of Life, Stanza 10.
crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er.
Stephanie Perkins— Isla and the Happily Ever After (2014)
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
agatha christie— The Last Séance (1926, pg. 29)
Time is eternity; Pregnant with all eternity can give; Pregnant with all that makes archangels smile. Who murders Time, he crushes in the birth A power ethereal, only not adorn'd.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 107.
