Crushing Quotes

the wheel of fate crushes us all

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

It was a thumping.

The standard Bristol set at being a mother is high for a woman to have to step into. She, as a mom, is crushing it.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

If you're facing rejection right now, it's very important to realize, especially in a down market, that it's not personal. Really. Truly. The indifference of the system is also crushing. But perhaps it's better than thinking that someone was out to get you.

A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

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

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

I left Nixon, feeling ... like a very small creature, skirting the shadows of encircling powers that would not hesitate to crush me as impersonally as a steam roller crushes a bug.

I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.