Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Mark Twain

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

Honore de Balzac

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Carly Fiorina

We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need to radically simplify the tax code so that we can re-start the real engine of growth in our economy. That means our tax code needs to go from 73,000 pages down to about three pages.

James Earl Jones

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

Jaron Lanier

The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.

Janeane Garofalo

Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.

Offensively the first game we just crushed the ball.

the ones that I saw had their heads crushed in and deep slashes.

Dream crusher. He crushes dreams. He doesn't look like much, he's not the most muscular kid out there. Not real big. Not your typical diesel wrestler.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Bruce Bochy

Sometimes it's better off not executing, I guess. Johnson, I mean, he crushed that ball. That's huge at that point. It gave us a comfortable lead, because we were trying to let them back in.

A thousand miles on these shoes is not out of the question. There's nothing in the mid-sole to crush down.

A last-second loss just crushes you. Tonight it was a 19-point game. In a game like that, you slowly start to realize it's getting away. It doesn't crush you. It's not as hard to come back from in the region.

This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.

They probably deserved to win that game more than us. We should've crushed their pitching, but we didn't. I think we just played to their level.

Marcelo Balboa

As a player I was always labeled as Rambo or the guy who crushed people at the back, ... You never really knew how the media thought of you. The fact that they voted me in on the first time, it's a real honor.

They know just because one guy is starting now, that doesn't mean the other is not going to have his opportunity later. Starting is going to be a very big thing for somebody and it's going to be a great opportunity. We don't want the other person to be crushed because he's not.

They met two men who were paid $50 for the vehicle. It had no hood and it had been stripped. They took it to the crusher and it was crushed on Dec. 28.

Geri Halliwell

I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.

Henry David Thoreau

This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

Jamaica Kincaid

Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

Isaac Marion

I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

Ellen DeGeneres

I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

Ernest Hemingway

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

Erin O'Connor

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.