Quotes About Crushed

All squashed!

She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.

I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.

Seeing the open pits in the open air, among farms, is the wonder, and seeing the bodies twist free from the soil. The sight of a cleaned clay soldier upright in a museum case is unremarkable, and this is all that future generations will see. No one will display those men crushed beyond repair; no one will display their loose parts; no one will display them crawling from the walls. Future generations will miss the crucial sight of ourselves as rammed earth.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

Japan: A stranger hands you a stone and asks you to hold it. Puzzled, you take it. The stone grows. And grows until you are crushed

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit? —Proverbs 18:14

We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.

This is New York: skyscraper champion of the world where slickers and know-it-alls peddle gold bricks to each other and where the truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye. —BEN HECHT, Nothing Sacred, 1937

heaviest of all woe Is theirs whose life is crushed beyond recall.

We are commanded to give them the law so that they will be crushed by it and see their need for a Savior. The law won't make them good. It will make them despair of ever being good enough, and in that way it will make them open to the love, sacrifice, and welcome of their Savior, Jesus Christ.

She'd done everything she could to compensate and influence the future. She wanted nothing but good for her daughters and the burden of it was huge. It weighed her down, and there were days when it almost crushed her. And she'd made him carry the burden, too. Survivor's guilt. "I worry I haven't done enough. Or that I haven't done it right." "I'm sure every parent thinks that from time to time.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. —PROVERBS 17:22

The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear? (Prov. 18:14 NIV)

And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.

Oprost je miris koji ljubi?ica ostavi na stopalu koje ju je zdrobilo.

El perdón es la fragancia que la violeta suelta cuando se levanta el zapato que la aplastó.

Perdón es el aroma que la violeta deja en el zapato que la aplastó.

Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what's happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance movements are being crushed and broken. If we do not respect and honour them, by default we privilege those who turn to violent means.

sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer, and in their search crushed others, perhaps even her; but she could not be crushed, for she had the answer.

Real faith is never something that can be forced by the state. It's something that either be encouraged and smiled upon or discouraged and frowned-upon. Or, simply crushed

he felt as if a tree had fallen and pinned him to the ground.