Crush famous quotes
04-23-2025
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When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.
-- Abby Sunderland -
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
-- Adam Lambert -
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
-- Adam McKay -
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 -
So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à ", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.
-- African Spir -
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
-- Agatha Christie -
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want—not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
-- Ai Weiwei -
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
-- Aidan Chambers -
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.
-- Alan Lomax -
When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
-- Alan Redpath -
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
-- Albert Camus -
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
-- Albert Camus -
Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.
-- Alexa Vega -
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.
-- Alexander Dubcek -
Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
It starts with a crush, it then may turn into love, and hopefully will end up as soulmates.
-- Alexander Sutherland Neill -
I have a girl crush on Rachel Bilson. She's so cute, I just want to put her in my pocket. I love her style, and I'm fascinated by everything she wears, and I think she's a really sweet and kind person. She's cute. I like her.
-- Alexandra Chando -
I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush them and kill them wherever they exist. That’s not being a warmonger. It’s being a realist.
-- Allen West -
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
-- Ally Condie -
My first TV crush was Elroy Jetson, because he was so cute. And I wanted to play with Astro on his automatic dog-walker thing.
-- Alyson Hannigan -
As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him, too. One day he said to me, 'I like your best friend more because she's paler and she has freckles.' And it was right then that I began to feel like, Oh wow, I'm different.
-- America Ferrera -
I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
-- Anais Nin -
I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.
-- Anais Nin -
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
-- Anderson Cooper -
What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
-- Andrew Marvell -
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 -
As we befriend our crush and get to know him better, make sure that you are honest and true all the time. Do not be someone you are not just to impress him.
-- Angus T. Jones -
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
-- Anita Diament -
she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
-- Ann Brashares -
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
-- Ann Richards -
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...
-- Anna Godbersen -
Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.
-- Anne Bronte -
Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.
-- Annette Funicello -
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
-- Aphra Behn -
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
-- Arabella Weir -
As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.
-- Arthur Symons -
Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.
-- Arthur Symons -
I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.
-- Ashlee Simpson -
I would spar with the boys at school. This guy I had a crush on, we called him Spitfire -- I gave him a bloody nose and lip, so needless to say the romance did not work out!
-- Ashley Greene -
I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it.
-- Avril Lavigne -
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I'm so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with, or work with. That's such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with them.
-- Aziz Ansari -
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
-- B. C. Forbes -
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
-- Barbara Mertz -
Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
-- Barry Eichengreen -
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
-- Ben Harper -
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
-- Ben Stein -
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. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
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 -
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
-- Bhagat Singh -
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
-- Bill W. -
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
-- Billie Holiday -
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 -
Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly: the chances are, it's holding you, too.
-- Bob Alberti -
They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.
-- Bob Dylan -
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
-- Bobby Fischer -
Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
-- Brennan Manning -
You're attracted to him," Kylie said. "And don't try to deny it. You've even admitted that much to me." "Okay, I won't deny that. He's got that whole hard body, vampire magnetism going for him. But when I was young, I had a crush on Big Bird. That wouldn't have worked out either.
-- C.C. Hunter -
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
-- Caitlin Moran -
...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo.
-- Caitlin Moran -
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; youll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
-- Cameron Sinclair -
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
-- Carl Bernstein -
When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years...
-- Caroline Knapp -
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.
-- Cassandra Clare -
You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.
-- Cassandra Clare -
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 -
Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.
-- Charles Dickens -
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 -
Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.
-- Charles Kingsley -
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
-- Charles Sumner -
Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.
-- Charlie Brooker -
People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.
-- China Mieville -
You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?
-- Chris Cleave -
Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.
-- Chris Gethard -
I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evilâ€-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 -
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.
-- Chris Hedges -
My first real kiss was actually on the set of 'The Vampire's Assistant' with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!
-- Chris Massoglia -
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!
-- Christa B. Allen -
If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.
-- Claire Danes -
Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction.
-- Claire Smith -
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 -
I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
-- Clarice Lispector -
The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me
-- Corinne Bailey Rae
