Crush Quotes - page 2

It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time. (Roger Ebert)
Between 1945 and 2005 the United States has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process, the U. S. caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair. View quote
William Blum
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. View quote
Andrew Marvell
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if I do not support it. The title attracts attention to myself. View quote
Stendhal
I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents. View quote
Tré Cool
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you. View quote
Voltaire
When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me. View quote
Mindy Kaling
Don't wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride. (Nancy Leigh DeMoss)
I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret. View quote
Rick Riordan
He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.' There was an uncomfortable silence. 'That sounds... extreme,' Jason ventured. View quote
Rick Riordan
He had a crush on a blueberry bush once. View quote
Rick Riordan
She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard. View quote
Rick Riordan
It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell. View quote
Harlan Coben
Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen. (Vanessa Hudgens)
The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time. View quote
Joshua Ferris
The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush. View quote
L.J. Smith
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. View quote
Langston Hughes
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between. View quote
Lev Grossman