There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken. And alive, for the first time in his life.” — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
“Oh course he had come for her, her cranky white knight with his battered but not broken K9 partner in tow.” — Katie Ruggle Copy Share Image
My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this,… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment… Hungry women are… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them,… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides,… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to learn how to do a crippler… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. — Rick Allen Copy Share Image
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds… — Lynn Woolsey Copy Share Image
Saunders didn't beat me. I wasn't battered or shown-up. I made the mistake of not pressing him early, pacing myself too much… — Chris Eubank Jr Copy Share Image
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
![“I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't…” quote by Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd3/oprah-winfrey-186_accepted_i-was-in-a-conversation-and-someone-said_25645.jpg)
