#crushed

If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#love #love

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him? ↗

— Oskar Schindler

#crushed #dog #going #help #him

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cannot #crushed #crushing #feel #feels

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#been #convinced #crushed #france #had

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fingers #hand #his #history #out

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

— Ted Nugent

#crushed #evil #get #good #survives

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#become #crushed #dead #death #earth

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. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#could #crushed #especially #etiquette #feel

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#another way #control #country #crushed #get

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#hand #i #inside #knuckle #missing