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

Fragrance, Heel, Sheds

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt Romney

Family, Health, History

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
Jeff Bridges

Hurt, Alive, Sensitive

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

Nature, Power, Human

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

Power, Hope, Nothing

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

Nothing, Human, Person

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

Good, War, Evil

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

School, Made, Small

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
Emo Philips

Wife, Two, Said

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

Fall, Heaven, Flowers

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Boris Pasternak

Time, Light, Darkness

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
John Malkovich

Others, Able, Gift

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

History, Stop, Hand

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

Down, Try, Reason

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Power, Law, Laws

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

Able, Child, Spirit

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.
Nick Clegg

Politics, Political, Down

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

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
Jennie Finch

Tell, Coach, Pitcher

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

Alone, Against, Brother

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
Murray Rothbard

War, State, Unless

I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.
Kevin Rudd

Government, Long, Saying

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

War, Effort, Might

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

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson

Good, Deceived, Fortune

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.
Jim Caviezel

Carry, Weight, Cross

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
Bill James

Sports, Children, Through

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
Karen Mills

Small, Hit, Credit

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

Death, Experience, Become

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
Agnes Smedley

Women, Made, System

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