Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

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.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

In the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 0 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Winning is great sure but if you are really going to do something in life the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat and go on to win again you are going to be a champion someday.

Screaming at children over their grades especially to the point of the child's tears is child abuse pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing scarring disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

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

I met Gemma my wife when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later she started coming to my concerts but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was and that's how it started.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26 and it changed my life entirely.