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Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesnâ??t make it right. -- B. J. Novak
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. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing." -- Khaled Hosseini
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 a woman is in her own home, not in the streets. -- Gloria Steinem
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. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing. -- Khaled Hosseini
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. -- Roger Kahn
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. -- Rick Allen
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. -- Virginia Woolf
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. -- Jack Kerouac
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. -- Isobelle Carmody
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital. -- Tim Rice
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it. -- Joe McNally
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. -- Robert Gottlieb
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. -- Dido Armstrong
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 all continental Europe. -- Douglas Hurd
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.' -- Amanda Hocking
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me. -- Ellen Potter
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. -- Victor Davis Hanson
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 pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. -- Jim Morrison
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. -- Eugene Kennedy
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. -- Dick Cavett
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. -- Janet Echelman
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. -- Ann Rule
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. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
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 to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something. -- Tom Odell
I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all. -- Colin Farrell
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. -- John Ortberg
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 the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people. -- Bruce Dickinson
You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again. -- Bunker Roy
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed -- Roger Kahn
Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. -- Carl Jung
...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality. -- David Eagleman
When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken. -- Suze Orman
The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became. -- Azar Nafisi
Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then! -- Allen Ginsberg
There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad. -- Laura Schlessinger
It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal. -- Tom Waits
Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender. -- Gerry Spence
On faithâ??s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nationâ??s hot rage. -- Aberjhani
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. -- Thomas S. Monson
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. -- Donald E. Westlake
The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear. -- Nita Lowey
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed. -- Neal Shusterman
Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life. -- V.S. Carnes
Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day." -Liberty -- Lisa Kleypas
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
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 world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'. -- Andre Vltchek
His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him. -- Maile Meloy
His heart was like a battered guitar; worn and scuffed from a life spentout on the road, but still capableof bringing forth beautiful music. -- John Mark Green
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
Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother. -- Michael Grant
Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother." -- Michael Grant
I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease! -- Georgia Douglas Johnson
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 killed. -- Catharine MacKinnon
I'm sorry, Eve. I love you. I'm not letting you do this." She screamed and battered harder. "You love me? You asshole! Let me go! -- Rachel Caine
To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life -- Anodea Judith
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 well. -- Carl Froch
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 can dance. -- Sarah Vowell
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads ... -- Katharine Susannah Prichard
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. -- Amanda Hocking
There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day. -- George Carlin
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 a primal loneliness. -- Garry Wills
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 be accorded the same gravity. -- Tim Field
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 women crosses all economic lines. -- Lynn Woolsey
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 landlord does not intend to repair. -- John Quincy Adams
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there. -- Princess Diana
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 not the message we should be sending. -- Hilda Solis
At his wife's 60th birthday party in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Dick Cheney had a huge steak and battered onion rings for dinner. Afterwards he met with 100 donors, not campaign donors, heart donors -- Jay Leno
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 spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed. -- George VI
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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