Crushed Quotes - Page 12

• My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wise, Son, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “The Professor”, p.117, Charlotte Bronte

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• ...(O)ne thing that the world can count on is that we will not allow Israel to be crushed.

  George W. Bush

  Israel, World

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• Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

  Francis Bacon

  Fate, Men, Fortune

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• Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

  Joe Hill

  Depression, Butterfly, Hands

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Yield, Oil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works”

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• If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Ends, Disgraceful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

  Henry Miller

  Men, White Man, Mexican

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• One girl came up to me - I remember it so vividly - she said, "You're not fit to model socks." It crushed me. But at the same time, it made me unbelievably determined to prove everybody wrong and prove to myself that I could live an incredible life.

  Karen Elson

  Girl, Determined, Remember

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the desert and finds a little crushed UFO with a martian who has survived the crash. She takes him home, and they fall in love. Later he has to meet with his fellow martians who have arrived to rescue him. It's a sad ending. This was my first truly narrative story and apparently the first narrative story in fashion photography.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Photography, Fashion, Falling In Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Employee, Ifs

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.

  Samantha Power

  Sports, Country, Confused

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• Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

  Joe Strummer

  Power, Age, Authority

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• If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

  Audre Lorde

  Alive, Fantasy, Define Yourself

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• We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.

  Anthony Doerr

  Mother, Heart, Cells

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

  Walker Evans

  Religious, Stars, War

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• For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

  Donald Trump

  Ignorance, Entrepreneur, Loser

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Jan 27, 2014

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• The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

  Samuel Rogers

  Made, Ill, Stills

  Samuel Rogers (1836). “Poems”, p.154

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• The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, America, Income

  Second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

  Val Kilmer

  Brother, Father, Opportunity

  "This much I know" by Ben Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let it drop…  When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.

  Grace Kelly

  Fighting, Yelling, Long

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• The feminine aspect has been crushed for millennia in most cultures. I believe the future lies in a balance of the male/female duality

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  Lying, Believe, Balance

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• I think writing comics is predicated on being a fan - there's no either/or. I'd argue I'm an even bigger fan now than when I started because I know how the hot dogs get made. And I kinda always saw the moving parts. I think I appreciate the good ones more now that I realize how lousy the production process can be, how hard it can be, and how easily something good can get crushed in its cogs.

  Matt Fraction

  Dog, Moving, Writing

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• Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

  Keith Miller

  Memories, Heart, Clouds

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• Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Justice, Perspective

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• No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

  Leonard Cohen

  Revenge, Penance, Why Not

  Song: Humbled In Love, Album: Recent Songs, 1979

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