Crush Quotes - Page 37

• I can still hear the words you whispered when you told me I can stay right here forever in your arms from Forever and for Always

  Shania Twain

  Love, Forever, Arms

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• Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beer, Earth, Matter

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Integrity, Patriotic, Night

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• Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Heart, Climbing, Confusion

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• All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Depression, Letting Go, Moving

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• I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Depression, Black, Trying

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Years, People, Needs

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• Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start to wake from a dream you don't want to leave. That crushing sensation in the center of your chest, like you are losing an important piece of yourself you won't ever get back.

  Jennifer Rush

  Dream, Echoes, Feelings

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• If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.

  Richard Branson

  Lying, Competition, Survival

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• Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

  Vasily Grossman

  Kindness, Struggle, Evil

  "Zbigniew Herbert, Vasily Grossman, and 'a small kernel of human kindness'" by Cynthia Haven, Stanford University blog, bookhaven.stanford.edu. August 2018.

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• You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.

  Mark Driscoll

  Running, Jesus, Hate

  "Jesus Took Our Wrath (Propitiation),". Sermon preached at Mars Hill Church, November 6, 2005.

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• Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful "who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.

  Pope Pius X

  Religious, Powerful, Sky

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Popes and the Papacy" by Brandon Toropov, (p. 26), 2001.

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• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

  Class, Reform, Weight

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• We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of doing things by themselves. To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.

  Jean Vanier

  Light, Shining, Process

  Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.16, Paulist Press

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• Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn’t rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is a damnable, crushing, despair-breedin g, Pharisee-produc ing law.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Jesus, Kids, Law

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• Don’t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pride, Broken, Waiting

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• It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

  Max Arthur Macauliffe

  Struggle, Wind, Worry

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• A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Feelings, Mind, Weight

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.

  Chris Hedges

  Party, Two, Evil

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• I’ve always had a big crush on Arjun Rampal. He’s so damn good looking

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Looking Good, Bigs, Damn

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• We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Light, Shells, Safe

  "Zen Miracles : Finding Peace in an Insane World" by Brenda Shoshanna, (p. 80), 2002.

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• The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Army

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Powerful, Men, Tanks

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

  Craig Ferguson

  War, Texas, People

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