Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Francine Pascal

Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

Pete Carroll

I'm just crushed for him. It's been a year and a half now for his recovery - we'll wait and see what it all means.

Erin O'Connor

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Helen Keller

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

Helen Keller

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

Cassandra Clare

He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.

Chris Edwards

The next generation of young workers will be crushed by gigantic and rising payroll taxes to pay for all of this,

A thousand miles on these shoes is not out of the question. There's nothing in the mid-sole to crush down.

A last-second loss just crushes you. Tonight it was a 19-point game. In a game like that, you slowly start to realize it's getting away. It doesn't crush you. It's not as hard to come back from in the region.

Everybody who's ever been in the game has been in a situation where they screwed up the game. It crushed me. We're losing, and it's my fault.

It's the sensation of an elephant sitting on the chest, crushing it, a coldsweat and pain running up the left side of the neck and down the left arm,

It's only our fifth year as a varsity sport, so we are still building. But we're starting to be competitive with the rest of the teams. Xavier used to crush us five years ago, but now we're very competitive with them.

Jaron Lanier

The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.

Janeane Garofalo

Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.

Erin Morgenstern

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.

Cassandra Clare

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

Cassandra Clare

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.

Caroline Knapp

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...

Carly Fiorina

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

Mindy Kaling

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

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

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.

Harry Styles

My first real crush was... Louis Tomlinson.

Fred Hammond

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.

Frank Herbert

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.

George H. W. Bush

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.

Gunter Grass

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Carly Fiorina

We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need to radically simplify the tax code so that we can re-start the real engine of growth in our economy. That means our tax code needs to go from 73,000 pages down to about three pages.

James Earl Jones

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

Joseph Joubert

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

Kristin Hannah

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.