Crush Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

  Tom Hanks

  Birthday, Baby, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Girl, Dream, Children

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.

  Janet Jackson

  Kissing, First Kiss, Firsts

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• The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Futility Of Life, Life And Death, Manifestation

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• When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.

  Carrie Underwood

  Guy, Twenties, Alternatives

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• We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we can believe in and the crushing realisation that nothing will change.

  Simon Critchley

  Believe, Tragedy, Realisation

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• I'm dating my celebrity crush!

  Lea Michele

  Dating

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• The only crush I have is on Chris Colfer. I’m madly in love with him… I just, like, I doodle in my prop notebooks, ‘I heart Chris Colfer’ over and over and over again.

  Lea Michele

  Notebook, Heart, Madly In Love

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• The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

  John Ratzenberger

  Cute, Girl, Drama

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Coffee, Funny Things

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• Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

  Frank Sinatra

  Self, Enemy, World

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• Ive never understood having crushes on people who you dont know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I mean, I can appreciate that someone is good-looking, obviously, but I dont intend to fantasize about people I dont know!

  Emma Watson

  Real, Mean, People

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• But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Selfish, Character, Watches

  "20Q: Joseph Gordon-Levitt". Interview with Stephen Rebello, www.playboy.com. August 15, 2012.

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• It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.

  Ellen Page

  Good Life, Hate, Here I Am

  "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

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• I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

  Blake Lively

  School, Boys, Shy

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• I have so many girl crushes, it changes all the time. I love Catherine Zeta Jones, she's so beautiful, Lucy Liu, Jennifer Aniston and Zooey Deschanel; she's adorable.

  Katrina Bowden

  Beautiful, Girl, Adorable

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• When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.

  Lotte Lenya

  Fall, Cat, Responsibility

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• Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.

  Matthew Lillard

  Hot, Littles, Kind

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

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• How many of you have had a crush on a teacher? I mean, remember that Physics professor? Law One is so steamy, I'm getting worked up just thinking about it: Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. Mee-yow.

  Olivia Munn

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking

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• I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, I Smile, Music Business

  "Strange Parallel". Documentary, 1998.

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