Words matter. These are the best Battered Quotes from famous people such as Dick Cavett, Amanda Hocking, Masha Gessen, Jade Bird, Anne Applebaum, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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 ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.’
I don’t have a lot of hope for Russia when Putin goes, because I think that the kind of damage that has been done to that country hasn’t been understood. We’ve never seen a country that has been this battered.
Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.
False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited – or when they are battered by rubber bullets.
If the door is nailed shut, and you’re ‘Leaning In,’ you’re just going to get bruised and battered.
On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life – from residents at a battered women’s shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees – and learn about their lives and struggles.
I’m not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.
Our job… as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that… we bring the parliament back together.
I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover – one-time child prodigy – should be up your alley. I don’t, and it isn’t up mine.
I will never change. In years to come, I’ll still be that Geordie lass walking round South Shields with a battered Mars Bar!
Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a ‘battered wasteland’ where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive.
The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings – otherwise what’s the point of using him? But as I’m writing him, he’s younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I’ve had for years and years. None of them are digital.
I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It’s a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I’ve written are about wives who just couldn’t get away.
What’s gratifying is that it’s my books that are being read and reread until they’re battered over the years. I love that.
I am aware that I have come to the end of my martial times, but training with pain I want no longer. My body is battered by countless trainings. I collected nine operations; the body has become prone to injury.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
When I speak to a victim or their family, people who were left bruised and battered by someone, and can give them some small relief, I know I’m winning in some small way, and I’m part of a process that sometimes works.
Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
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 battered old BMW.
Think schnitzel, and you usually think veal or pork: pounded into tenderness, battered, and fried to a golden magnificence.
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 because it was my first 12-round fight.
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
Tuition fees have formed part of a full-frontal assault on the living standards of a generation battered by a housing crisis, stagnating wages and slashed services.
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. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
I’m one of those girls that, day-to-day, I’m in trainers or Converse. I have about 50 pairs of trainers, so when I get the chance to dress up, I will definitely be in heels. 100 percent. I might take some battered Converse in my bag to wear at the after-party when my feet are tired.
I don’t know about you, but I certainly feel so battered by seeing people wearing masks. It’s all we hear, all we talk about, so that actually when you watch TV, the last thing you want to see all the time is people wearing masks.
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory – and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
