Crushed Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

  Richard Trumka

  Jobs, Air, Should Have

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

  Robert Burns

  Fate, Weight, Ruins

  Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.79

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• People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Friendship, Life Changing, Mean

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• The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

  Romano Prodi

  Rejection, Rejected, Policy

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• The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also don’t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it’s like there’s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you’d be crushed under the weight of it.

  Courtney Summers

  Mean, Kissing, Secret

  Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.223, Macmillan

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• Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.

  Francis Parkman

  Art, War, Men

  Francis Parkman (1865). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.214

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• And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Dream, Blind, Left Behind

  Song: The Dream

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• In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.

  Neal Ascherson

  Summer, Country, Rain

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• We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Writing, Heart, Night

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.

  John S. Hall

  People, Soul, Defense

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box.

  David Letterman

  Black, Juggernaut, Election

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• After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Basketball, Team, Golf

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• Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Dust

  Lucretius (2011). “On the Nature of Things”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Style, Today, Management

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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