Crushing Quotes

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When my dad died at the end of my sophomore year (at university), I stopped and took stock of my life. There was this real sense that my childhood was officially over. I decided I wanted to be an actor. I knew I was loved as a kid. The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family`s attention and love. When my mother got sick, and I`d see her fight to survive, it gave me an early view of bravery and what life was about. I was able to prepare for it. Your mother dies, and you`re eighteen, and you face a choice. Are you going to take drugs? Become a drunk? Or are you going to try to become more spiritual? Why not go with the thing that seems more positive? (pause) Why do I tend to be optimistic? Because the alternative is just crushing to my soul.

- Martin Short

Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

- Joseph Conrad

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. These men in their black towers don`t know what they are doing. It`s slave labour. There is no elegance left in anybody. They have no taste. Movies are being financed by conglomerates, which take a writeoff if they don`t work. The only people who fight for what the public deserves are artists.

- Olivia de Havilland

It`s definitely crushing. We have our backs against the wall now.

- Jason Varitek

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

- Wilma Rudolph

It`s not just us. He`s crushing everybody. We try to pitch him a certain way, but he`s a real good hitter. He`ll hit good pitches, he`ll hit bad pitches.

- Adrian Beltre

There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country. ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

- John Cameron Mitchell

To see this damage and to hear such a unique and great possession like this had been destroyed was just crushing. Today`s been full of a lot of memories, just about all the wonderful flights that I had taken in the aircraft and my history with it.

- Bob King

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

- Bob Graham

On behalf of the employees of Cisco, we send our deepest sympathy and condolences to all of those affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, ... This has been a crushing blow to the residents of the Gulf Coast and we stand by them, ready to help.

- John Chambers

Be warned against all `good` advice because `good` advice is necessarily `safe` advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

- Jules Feiffer

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

- David Wilkerson

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

- Jan Peter Balkenende

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

- Alexander Nikonov

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

- Allan Meltzer

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

- Alleggrie Guinn

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

- Amjad Jamal

As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone`s counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We`re the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.

- Antonio Rivero

Continued self-exclusion from the euro will bring a crushing loss of investment and political influence and increased vulnerability to money market turmoil,

- Arben Xhaferi

I was shocked. I won`t say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

- Athenagoras I

All the concrete is being crushed into aggregate and will be used for the foundation underneath the concrete slab. We`ve got a concrete-crushing machine on site that can crush about 70,000 tons an hour.

- Azeem Azhar