Battered Quotes

103 quotes by 97 authors

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for… — Gloria Steinem
It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems,… — Nathaniel Branden
I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like… — Amanda Hocking
I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm… — Bruce Dickinson
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and… — Catharine MacKinnon
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /… — William Butler Yeats
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from… — Garry Wills
There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad. — Laura Schlessinger
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. — Roger Kahn
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. — Jack Kerouac
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with… — Jim Morrison
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf
Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by… — Neal A. Maxwell
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters… — Russell Kirk
And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there.… — Khaled Hosseini
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over… — Charlaine Harris
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given -… — Dean Koontz
When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure… — Sarah Vowell

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