Battered Quotes

103 quotes by 97 authors

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that… — Mamie Till
On faithâ€™s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nationâ€™s hot rage. — Aberjhani
A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon… — Leon Uris
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree… — Carl Jung
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… — Carl Jung
I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios… — David Dreman
To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Â Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves… — Anodea Judith
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too… — Derrick Jensen
The man whose little sermon is â€˜repentâ€™ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose… — Joseph Parker
He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as… — Carl Froch
It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old… — Tom Waits
Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesnâ€™t make it right. — B. J. Novak
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. — Thomas S. Monson
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of… — Douglas Hurd
The wonder is not that so many people have sick or battered souls, but that they think they have souls at all. — Nicholas Samstag
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by… — Martha C. Nussbaum
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books â€” brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and… — James Branch Cabell
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and Ã©lan. Splendid. — Stacy Schiff
The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely… — Lloyd deMause
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 equipment and a… — Dido Armstrong

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