Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilary Swank

I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

Ali Larijani

Iran has prepared itself ... they will get a crushing response if they make such a mistake.

I gave him the green light because I figured they'd throw him a fastball, and they did and he crushed it.

George Bernard Shaw

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Gary North

The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.

Placido Polanco

I don't know how ready he was. Even during the season, sometimes you miss it. But sometimes you crush it. I'm pretty sure Ortiz thought that was a good pitch to hit.

Isadora Duncan

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Charles Phillips

In this case, it might be more fun to crush them

Dream crusher. He crushes dreams. He doesn't look like much, he's not the most muscular kid out there. Not real big. Not your typical diesel wrestler.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

the ones that I saw had their heads crushed in and deep slashes.

Bruce Bochy

Sometimes it's better off not executing, I guess. Johnson, I mean, he crushed that ball. That's huge at that point. It gave us a comfortable lead, because we were trying to let them back in.

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.

This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.

They probably deserved to win that game more than us. We should've crushed their pitching, but we didn't. I think we just played to their level.

Offensively the first game we just crushed the ball.

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.

Kendall Jenner

My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well.

Kate Chopin

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

Julia Ward Howe

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.

Julia Stiles

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

Julian Assange

I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

Julian Assange

That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.