#crushed

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#crushed-spirit #gloom #house-of-the-seven-gables #low #men

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

#building #clock #come #communism #concrete

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 love you in such a greedy way, I’m guilty about it.” She tilted her head back as he moved his lips to her throat. “Guilty is for crimes. Always is for love. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#crushed-seraphim #mine #poughkeepsie #seriana #love

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#crushed #fragrance #heel #sheds #violet

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

— Edmund Burke

#crushed #dangerous #evade #hope #law

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#ahead #child #crushed #feed #i

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#alone #average #brother #crushed #desperately

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#after #another #anyone #anything #awful

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. ↗

— Jean Paul

#brutal #crushed #ere #fall #flowers