Quotes About Crushed

The wave had not yet reached its lowest ebb when suddenly it began to rise again. Swaying, it rose higher than the first, and over this second wave, like foam boiling up on the crest, there seethed up a whistling and, here and there, the outcries of women distinguishable through the thunder...And those were moans of women who were crushed as the crowd surged forward. (40)

As the amount of matter used to create a black hole increases, the required density to which that matter must be crushed decreases.

We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group.

A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it's just because we don't see all the creativity that's been crushed.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

And if I still feel the smart of my crushed leg, though it be now so long dissolved; then, why mayest not thou, carpenter, feel the fiery pains of hell for ever, and without a body? Hah!

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

Caladan Brood, the menhired one, winter-bearing, barrowed and sorrowless . . ." Calot picked up the next lines.   ". . . in a tomb bereaved of words, and in his hands that have crushed anvils—" Tattersail continued, "the hammer of his song— he lives asleep, so give silent warning to all—wake him not.

He passed several bodies that had fallen out of their niches onto the floor, their broken limbs positioned in attitudes of despair and terror, their crushed faces expressing the most appalling horror.

The Millennial Generation is being crushed by soaring college costs and student loan debt, and as lawmakers, we must find solutions to address affordability and flexibility in higher education.

the most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit.

Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house?

It's a bad one, man. Ah sit thaire jist likes, stunned; feeling aw raw n hollowed oot fae the inside. It's like whin you've been knocked back by a bird ye fancy, no thit that's happened tae me for a long time bein wi Ali likes but, like ye've been intae a lassie for ages, n ye sort go, eh, awright, what aboot, likesay, you n me, likes, eh … n she goes: naw. No way. Fuck off.

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.

It made me wonder how many important causes were crushed not by opposition, but by lukewarm support.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when should be gets crushed by what it is.

The solitude became a habit, the habit became the man, and it crushed him into a shadow.

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.

Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever.

A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

enhanced the physics of The Black Sun to make it a little cartoonish, so that particularly obnoxious people can be hit over the head with giant mallets or crushed under plummeting safes before they are ejected.