#crushing

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

#built #circulating #consequently #corruption #cruelty

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#bad #bad review #criticism #crushing #either

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. ↗

— Jon Porter

#college #crushing #debt #graduate #including

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#anything #crushing #exactly #how #i

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#broadcast #cigarette #crushing #like #listening

My girlfriend is a party girl angel who can kick some arse and cook. ↗

— Wendy Higgins

#humor #kaidan #love #humor

Can we swim?" Sky asks, resting her chin on my shoulder. "Did you bring a suit?" Please say no, please say no... "Yeah." Crap. "Great. ↗

— Jolene Perry

#jameson-sky #lol #such-a-guy-thing #lol

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#cold #cold war #commanded #crushing #curtain

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#better life #children #crushing #dreams #economy

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

#cannot #crushed #crushing #feel #feels