Battered Quotes

103 quotes by 97 authors

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal. — Tom Waits
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should… — Tim Field
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along… — Stephen Batchelor
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.… — Ada Louise Huxtable
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the… — John Quincy Adams
It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once… — Michael Palin
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered… — Philip Pullman
My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's… — Hilda Solis
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 left. Violence against… — Lynn Woolsey
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and… — Woodrow Wilson
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too… — Thomas S. Monson
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless,… — William Peter Blatty
We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No,… — Michael Foot
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like… — Billy Graham
There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have… — Tom Odell
It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the… — George VI
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. — Donald E. Westlake
Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is… — Mary Daly

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