#crushed

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

#alive #been #crushed #cynicism #cynics

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine. ↗

— George Lopez

#could #crushed #deal #factory #happen

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#hopes #law #laws #people #power

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

#criticise #crushed #gift #given #me

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

#after #another #anyone #anything #awful

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

#cruelty #crushed #darkness #even #grave

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

#brutal #crushed #ere #fall #flowers

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

— Emo Philips

#another man #bed #crushed #discovered #get

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart. ↗

— Jon English

#crushed #cup #fingers #heart #i

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

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due