Top 167 Battered Quotes & Sayings

I will never change. In years to come, I'll still be that Geordie lass walking round South Shields with a battered Mars Bar!

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

The Celts were harder than anyone else, tougher, and rugged. We battered everybody.

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 battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

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.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

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.

Me and my momma getting together on this foundation for battered women.

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.'

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

Think schnitzel, and you usually think veal or pork: pounded into tenderness, battered, and fried to a golden magnificence.

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

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.

The wonder is not that so many people have sick or battered souls, but that they think they have souls at all.

The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

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.

Israel's behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

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.

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!

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

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.

If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruised and battered.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

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.

I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

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.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

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

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.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

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.

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.

I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.

I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?

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.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

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.

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.

The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'.

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital.

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.

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.

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.

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.