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  • You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.

    Sweet   Angel   Style  
  • People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

  • Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

    Animal   Safety   Giving  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”
  • 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.

    Fighting   Yelling   Long  
  • ...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

    Crushed   Dread  
  • I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

  • If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

    Song   Heart   Bleeding  
    Source: chicagoist.com
  • We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

    Strong   War   Fighting  
    H. H. Asquith's Address to the House of Commons on the declaration of war with Germany, api.parliament.uk. August 6, 1914.
  • All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

    Crush   Revenge   Fire  
  • Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

    T. Davis Bunn, Isabella Bunn (2004). “The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)”, p.200, Bethany House
  • The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

    Peace   War   Glory  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Air   Should Have  
    "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.
  • In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

    "Noam Chomsky: Truth to power". Interview with David McNeill, chomsky.info. February 22, 2014.
  • I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.

    Dream   Father   Broken  
  • I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"

    Funny   Humor   Men  
    "75 Funniest Jokes of All Time". "GQ Magazine", June 1999.
  • My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

    Soul   Apathy   Melons  
    David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.197, Titan Books
  • The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.

    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.
  • Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

    War   Lying   Destiny  
  • I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

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

  • Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

    Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan
  • Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon." "Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug. Percy stifled a laugh. "Actually he's more like a great-great-...Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother." "Thanks." Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.

    Brother   Laughing   Hug  
  • I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

    Able   Given   Crushed  
  • Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press
  • Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

    John Updike (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Knopf
  • I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire. Her fingers ran through my sideburns and into my hair before linking around my neck, alive and cool on my warm skin. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind didn’t wander to compose a song lyric or store the moment for later reflection. For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else. -Sam

  • I see sad crushed plastic everywhere and put some thoughts composed of words that do not belong together together and feel a little digital hope.

    Matthew Zapruder (2013). “Come on All You Ghosts”, p.15, Copper Canyon Press
  • My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

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