I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. — Rick Allen 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
“Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals, And women, battered like overused proverbs.” — Vladimir Mayakovsky 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
“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
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'. — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back… — Marita Bonner Copy Share Image
I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that… — Henry Giroux 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
The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as… — Camille Paglia 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
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a… — Carl Jung 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
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
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became. — Azar Nafisi 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
“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with… — Georgia Douglas Johnson 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/i/cd3/oprah-winfrey-186_accepted_i-was-in-a-conversation-and-someone-said_25645.png)
