I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.
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.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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.
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
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.
I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
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.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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