Quotes about crush
crush important labels
Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others. Janeane Garofalo
crush letting-go butterfly
I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly. Erin Morgenstern
crush lying realization
You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in. Cassandra Clare
crush love-you trying
The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop. Cassandra Clare
crush passion night
When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years... Caroline Knapp
crush fall government
It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government. Carly Fiorina
crush men understanding
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. Gilbert K. Chesterton
crush real firsts
My first real crush was... Louis Tomlinson. Harry Styles
crush hands play
Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation. Fred Hammond
crush individuality balance
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations. Frank Herbert
crush eye trying
It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake fairly or unfairly get me off to a bad start with a person. George H. W. Bush
crush art passion
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper. Gunter Grass
crush girlfriend fun
In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys who didn’t know me, and yes, hanging out with my family. I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it. Mindy Kaling
crush falling-in-love coffee
I have crushes on celebrities or people I meet or see in the coffee shop, and every day I fall in love with three people simply because they said one funny thing or appeared to me in a certain way. Mindy Kaling
crush jealous phones
If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of. Mindy Kaling
crush blood ghouls
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. Karl Liebknecht
crush individual abstract
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker. Karl Marx
crush kids having-a-crush
As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch. Judd Nelson
crush voice weight
Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you. Kristin Hannah
crush war hands
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own defense. Increase his burdens and you will crush him...This is our present posture...This suggestions I make...would...conserve American lives for American ends. Murray Rothbard
crush real guitar
I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist. J. K. Rowling
crush truth humility
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. H. G. Wells
crush integrity patriotic
Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you. J. Reuben Clark
crush holiday sleep
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you. J. Reuben Clark
crush futility-of-life life-and-death
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation. Giacomo Leopardi
crushed dread
...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back. Jim Crace
crush mutual-fund competitors
The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors. Jim Cramer
crush shy persons
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? Honore de Balzac
crushed dreamed gotten great known worried
If I'd have known how great this was, I would've really dreamed about it and worried about it and I'd have been crushed if we hadn't gotten here.
crushing defeat earth heart move spirit
How on earth do they have the spirit and the heart to move forward? This was such a crushing defeat. We've got the momentum. We've got the unity. We've got the enthusiasm.
crush careers perfect
I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you. Jason Reitman
crush kings singers
My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon. Hillary Scott
crush fear justice
I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator. Hilary Swank