#rushed

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#being #brushed #something #touched #wings

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

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#butterfly #did #dust #his #know

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

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

— Ma Jian

#chinese #chinese people #could #crushed #fear

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back! ↗

— Nick Johnson

#could #francisco #i #i think #just

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#ended #february #gym #had #i

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#deceived #fortune #good #good fortune #ill

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#definitely #effort #germany #japan #might

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#did #first #floods #help #i