Crushed Quotes
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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Francis Bacon
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If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.
Walker Evans
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People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Francis Bacon
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I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.
Jennifer Garner
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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
Waverley Lewis Root
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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
Francis Bacon
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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
Emma Orczy
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Francis Bacon
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I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.
Charlotte Bronte