Crush Quotes - Page 13

• We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—

  Emily Dickinson

  Flower, Moving, Heart

  Emily Dickinson (2006). “The World in a Frame”, p.80, Pomegranate

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• What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

  Russell Brand

  Ordinary, Mediocrity, Opinion

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• Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Laughing, Black, Cracks

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, College, Eight

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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• He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds...extreme,' Jason ventured.

  Rick Riordan

  Order, Silence, Sound

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• Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Art, Children, Mean

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• Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

  George W. Bush

  Determination, Rogues, World

  "Ivins: Beyond the pale" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2006.

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• We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

  Julian Assange

  Meaningful, People, Use

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards'". Interview to Spiegel, www.commondreams.org. July 26, 2010.

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• It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Real, Thinking, Want

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. "I have an awesome on him.

  Megan McCafferty

  Hurt, It Hurts

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Clay, Language, Notes

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Men, Honor

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• What keeps me motivated is that I'm going to do a bunch of projects with dancers, and the people who compel me and make me love dance again are the ones I want to hire because they'll do that for others who are watching the thing. So yeah, it is difficult to crush dream sometimes, but they're all professional and they know what the deal is.

  Jon M. Chu

  Dream, People, Dancer

  Source: collider.com

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• Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? Exactly the same as we behaved against the Jews, we now wish to do against all other people who are in our way, to smash, crush - yes, even exterminate.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Hate, People, Wish

  Diary, March 30, 1940.

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• There's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor.

  Brian Kiley

  Teacher, Wife, Instructors

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• ...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.

  Larissa Ione

  Horror, Needed

  FaceBook post by Larissa Ione from Jan 21, 2017

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• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

  Hillary Scott

  Kings, Singers, Caleb

  "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.

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• Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.

  LIZ

  Heart, Skins, Sitting

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• From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

  William Blum

  Country, Fighting, Government

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• It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Depression, Pain, Soul

  "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness". Book by William Styron (Chapter VI), 1990.

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• I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Guy, Green, Young

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Humor, Years

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1040, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Carly Fiorina

  Real, Mean, Growth

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Flower, Envy, Age

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