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Tag Name "Crushed" (181)

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People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering why they are dissatisfied when they have four of the ten boxes checked.
Steve Almond
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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
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
Ann Voskamp
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We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.
Victoria Chang
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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.
Sophia Tolstaya
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When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on the self-motivator: Success is achieved by those who try and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude. This is the way to avoid being crushed.
W. Clement Stone
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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
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We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
Karen Mills
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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
Waverley Root
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I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
Jon English
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
Margaret Thatcher
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Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon.
Alfred Noyes
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Alexander Pope
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James
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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
Al Franken
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
Aimee Mullins
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There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.
Adyashanti
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Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
Abby May Alcott
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The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
Matthew Arnold
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I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.
Liza Minnelli
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