Crush Quotes - Page 12

• There's a particular trend towards the empty pop song right now. Where people are like, "This. Is. Brilliant. She's singing about a crush on somebody. Wowww." You know what I mean? There's a weird, I don't know... It's called "poptimism."

  Ed Droste

  Song, Mean, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

  Georges Bataille

  Men, Being Free, Literature

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• I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Giving Up, Smart

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour?" Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.

  James Patterson

  Cute, Baby, Father

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• There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

  Sofia Coppola

  Teenager, Epic, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A crush is just as simple as admiration. You get attracted to another person and time can allow feelings to grow more into something more than that.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Love, Simple, Feelings

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• There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Country, Sex, Addresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.

  Russell Sherman

  Horse, Artist, Blow

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• If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Errors, Race, Play

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.64, Penguin

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• Nobody cares about that. I do have guys every now and then who say - it's always guys by the way, it's never women - who say, "You were my childhood crush, can we date?" And I'm like, "There's something kind of creepy about that. Do you hear yourself?"

  Mara Wilson

  Childhood, Guy, Creepy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Hilary Swank

  Fear, Justice, Roles

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• One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Mistake, Team, Mirrors

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

  Khalil Gibran

  Gratitude, Recovery, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Evil, Competition

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• If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

  Timothy Keller

  Expectations, World, Weight

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.118, Penguin

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• I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

  Emily Bronte

  Pain, Energy, Moral

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.475, Penguin

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• I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Flower, Hands, Needs

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

  David Miliband

  Today, Defeat, Britain

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Passion, Loss, Exaltation

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.278, e-artnow

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• Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Stars, Memories, Clouds

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.153, First Avenue Editions

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• 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

  Voice, Weight, Made

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.72, St. Martin's Griffin

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• All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Stars, Revenge, Moving

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.423, Anchor

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• She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Horse, Hero, Intelligent

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• Oh my God! I'm crushing an angel. Let me up!

  Nalini Singh

  Angel, Let Me

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.334, Penguin

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• The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Squids, Giants, Wheelchairs

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