Crush Quotes - Page 20

• Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Ideas, Trying

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.187, The Floating Press

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• The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

  Corinne Bailey Rae

  Sea, Majestic, Break

  Song: The Sea, Album: The Sea, 2010

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• Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America! If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way ... and our nation will pay a terrible price!

  Jerry Falwell

  Children, Men, America

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• But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

  Adin Ballou

  Army, Careers, Errors

  Adin Ballou (1848). “Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended”, p.87

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• I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

  Banksy

  Couple, Disappointment, Kids

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• What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it

  Angelina Grimke

  Men, Race, People

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.159, Penguin

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• Shahid Kapoor is my childhood crush

  Alia Bhatt

  Childhood

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• Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.

  Liona Boyd

  Music, Teacher, Smart

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• Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

  Elizabeth Van Lew

  Freedom, Jealous, Power

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• It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

  Aleister Crowley

  Country, Sex, Errors

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.213, Booklassic

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• Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

  Stephan Pastis

  Soul, Pages, Killers

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• It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range

  John Elway

  Sports, Range, Broads

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• Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

  Shirley Temple

  Tanks

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

  Gunter Grass

  Art, Passion, Expression

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• Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

  Marc Andreessen

  Real, Competition, Use

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• I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

  Lisa Gardner

  Kings, Would Be, Mets

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• The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

  Joshua Ferris

  Office, Desire, Pressure

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• I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Growth, Atheism, One Day

  1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

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

  Euripides

  Adversity, Men, Disaster

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

  H. Rider Haggard

  Fate, Juggernaut, Wheels

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1473, Delphi Classics

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• I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Might, Overwhelming Force, Force

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• Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

  Paul Davies

  Nature, Stars, Fate

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.65, Basic Books

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• ...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.

  Paul Banks

  Writing, Trying, Levels

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• It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Lying, Half

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• The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Fighting, Warrior, Views

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