When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken. — Suze Orman 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
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. — Thomas S. Monson 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
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender. — Gerry Spence 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
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
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
“We may not have been perfect, or even acceptable by anyone else’s standards. But together, we were perfect. Together, we were just… — T.M. Frazier Copy Share Image
The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear. — Nita Lowey Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“Even when battered and broken, he was beautiful. Yes, a guy could be beautiful. Especially if that guy was Deandre.” — Aishabella Sheikh Copy Share Image
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety… — Nathaniel Branden 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 knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist… — Nicci French 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
Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. — Donald E. Westlake 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
“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
“Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals, And women, battered like overused proverbs.” — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which… — Philip Pullman 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)
