Emotionally Battered Quotes

#1. I mentally picked myself up off the floor, dusted the dirt from my poor, emotionally battered ego, and began talking myself to a better place.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#2. In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women in
their prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,
emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medically
paralyzed.

Oche Otorkpa

#3. Be a man! Put on a mask.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#4. He seemed to have a story no one had bothered to discover

Gail Tsukiyama

#5. Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?

Dick Cavett

#6. Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.

Paul Auster

#7. There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Gad Elmaleh

#8. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

#9. Addiction by any other name is love.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. I didn't know," he whispered. "I didn't know I could love you so much.

Christina Lauren

#12. Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

Philip Zaleski

#13. So, are you a hero, Cole Walker?"
"What is a hero, really?"
"I suppose it's someone that saves people."
"Yeah, I suppose it is."
"So, do you save people?"
"I'm only fifteen. Give me a chance.

Samantha Young

#14. I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

Lyndon B. Johnson