Top Crushing Quotes
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.
Orville Wright
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
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
Olivia De Havilland
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
Milan Kundera
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
Jon Porter
Ann Patchett 
Kate Chopin 
Olivia De Havilland 
Jeanette Winterson 
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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.
Orville Wright 
63% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
Olivia De Havilland
54% of people like this quote
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
Milan Kundera
54% of people like this quote
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
Jon Porter
53% of people like this quote
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.
Josiah Warren
52% of people like this quote
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson
52% of people like this quote
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
Kate Chopin
49% of people like this quote
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
48% of people like this quote
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel
48% of people like this quote