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"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this." »Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
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"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom." »Manu
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"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie." »Unknown
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""I'll give you a hint: it's called a crush for a reason"" »Amanda Madden
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"The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them." »Franklin P. Jones
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"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight." »Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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"It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist." »Loren D. Estleman
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"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it." »H. G. Wells, 1903
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"Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too." »Bob Alberti
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"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." »Mao Zedong
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"like the cycle of water and life there is of love first you meet him, have a crush on him, dream that he is so damn perfect, realize he loves someone else, have a broken heart, finally getting over, and damn it! here we go again" »Fer
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"Why not go out on a limb Isn't that where the fruit is" »Frank Scully
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"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." »H. Jackson Browne
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"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." »Thomas Fuller
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"Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves." »Euripides
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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit." »Sir Walter Scott
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"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." »Baltasar Gracian
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"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit." »James Allen
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." »Aristotle
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." »Aristotle
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." »Moliere
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"Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone." »Oscar Wilde
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"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand." »Mother Theresa
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"Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit." »Francis Marion
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