Crushes Quotes

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.