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Crushed Quotes - Page 2

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 12, 1990.

When giants fought, ants were crushed.

Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.233, Allison & Busby

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.47, Enhanced Media Publishing

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

"Home truths from the exile". Interview With Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2004.

I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.

Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 10, 2012.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.516

Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?

Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.304, Delacorte Books for Young Readers