Quotes About Battered

#1. Battered biker jacket over the top. That was just the right mix. It was like, Hey there, I want to look cute for you, but I'm still wearing a dead cow as armour, don't get ideas..

Jay Stringer

#2. 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

#3. Fred Ruskin barreled through the rain down Buchanan Street in his battered Pacer, the jar his dead wife had directed him to retrieve from his nephew's coffin bouncing in the seat beside him.

Joe DeRouen

#4. We leafed through a series of the [1941 Soviet] Front newspaper. I came across the following phrase in a leading article: 'The much-battered enemy continued his cowardly advance.

Vasily Grossman

#5. Even now I am haunted by the touching look of the young, bright, anxious eyes as we passed along the rows of sufferers. There, all around us, lying maimed and battered and dying, was the flower of Britain's youth.

Wade Davis

#6. 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.

Mary Daly

#7. We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages - from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends - with one underlying theme: Live for yourself.

Billy Graham

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

Thomas S. Monson

#9. It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.

Patricia Briggs

#10. She stepped closer to the edge to watch the waves beat against rock. She felt that way, she mused. Battered by forces that were beyond her control, lapped in a violent, endless war with no choice but to stand.

Nora Roberts

#11. Out onto the battered road, then, the city falling away behind them. After a time, Karsa glanced back and bared his teeth at her. 'Listen. That is better, yes?' 'I hear only the wind.' 'Better than ten thousand tireless contrivances.

Steven Erikson

#12. Each of her soothing utterances battered me more grievously than the last - as if I were traveling in a perverse ambulance whose function was to collect a healthy man and steadily damage him in readiness for the hospital at which a final and terrible injury would be inflicted.

Joseph O'Neill

#13. Time is now measured from the night when death stole from me, took my battered heart, and left me behind.

Nicole Reed

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Our prayer which moves the arm of God - is still a bruised and battered prayer, and only moves that arm because the sinless One, the great Mediator, has stepped in to take away the sin of our supplication.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#17. 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

#18. Better to sail alone, and let the battered vessel wander where it will. The only honest course. Assume nothing, trust no one, encumber not and be not encumbered, make your own way, steer your own ship and none other, exactly so.

Brian Doyle

#19. It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away.

Nicci French

#20. When it finally came up over the battered Baal's Heart, the sun shone down on a sadly diminished crew. Three men were dead from injuries sustained aboard, and another five were missing. Tom was numbered among those presumed swept overboard by the fury of the storm.

Bey Deckard

#21. December 25, 1963
Christmas night and they've battered their heads together until they are silly and they've smiled themselves silly and vomited on the floor, 98% of them amateur drinkers, amateur Christians, amateur human beings

Charles Bukowski

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

Jack Kerouac

#23. 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.

Peter Milligan

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys.

Comte De Lautreamont

#27. A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.

Miguel Syjuco

#28. It was a frightening thing, to see two mentally incompetent sidewalk buskers, with battered folk musicians, who might any moment burst into song.

Bruce Sterling

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

Carl Jung

#30. Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals,
And women, battered like overused proverbs.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#31. As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger. She was there, in the full vigour of her personality, battered but not diminished, looking at me, speaking to me in the husky, breathy voice I remembered so well.

Willa Cather

#32. 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

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

Virginia Woolf

#34. Hurrah I awake from yesterday
Alive but the war is here to stay
So my love Caterina and me
Decide to take our last walk
Through the noise to the sea
Not to die but to be reborn
Away from a land so battered and torn ...
Forever ...

Jimi Hendrix

#35. Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Laura Schlessinger

#37. Positive emotions and mental states may make people more resilient to stress, like sturdy tree branches that bend but don't break when battered by a storm

Melanie Greenberg

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

Andre Vltchek

#39. The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#40. I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. And if he was a bit battered by circumstance, that merely added to his charm.
"You're a very hard person to kill, I think," I said. "That's a great comfort to me.

Diana Gabaldon

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

Tom Waits

#42. A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

John Grisham

#43. Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges
battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Billy Graham

#44. Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

John D. Voelker

#45. And what kind of man would nurture and support her pioneering temperament, her passionate heart? More likely by far that she would be oppressed and raged at until her spirit was battered.

Tracy Rees

#46. 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

#47. At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint.

Ram Dass

#48. Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#49. You're bruised and battered from dealing with things you should not have had to face, but you are not less because of that. You're more.

Cora Carmack

#50. She was battered incessantly, regularly, all the time. I'm not saying 24 hours a day, but the incidents of battering were extraordinarily high.

Susan Forward

#51. The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language."
Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts.

Shannon Hale

#52. 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

#53. Your experiences with a few battered babies and drug abusers does not justify your embrace of a monster.

Stephen King

#54. The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment ... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#55. Josh Hutchins's battered old Pontiac gave a wheeze like an old man with phlegm in his lungs.

Robert McCammon

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

Neal Shusterman

#57. Both battered to shit, both broken. But they were broken together now. Him, her, and their son or daughter. His very own family. And that's all that mattered. They were together, and together

Lucian Bane

#58. 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

#59. By the time she yanked on her old jeans and a battered plaid flannel shirt, she felt almost normal. Calm, as she plugged in the coffee pot. But the nightmare was still very much on her mind, because it wasn't a dream ...
It was a memory.

Dani Harper

#60. She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series of wounds were rising to the surface of her skin. All from the words. From Liesel's words.

Markus Zusak

#61. My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him

Mackenzie Herbert

#62. You are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

David Eagleman

#63. Our battered armor and scarred countenances will render more glorious our victory above, when we are welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome the world. We

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#64. 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

#65. In a daze, Remi stepped up to the battered old bar, next to Rhys. "What will it be?" the bartender asked Remi. "I'll have a Jake and Coke-uh, Jack and Cock, uh-" Oh fuck. Remi stopped talking. He could actually feel his face heat with a blush. Someone shoot me.

J.L. Langley

#66. 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

#67. But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent.

James Baldwin

#68. She was the type who chased, who danced into your life like a spring storm, and left you battered and quaking in the wake.

Katherine McIntyre

#69. Each person was in the power of the Creator, or could be turned over to be battered by the Refuser. Every soul was equal in the Creator's eyes.
That was comforting and troubling at the same time.

Trish Mercer

#70. The Society for the Protection of Historical Buildings was the official body whose task it was to oversee repairs and maintenance to our beloved but battered listed building. We had them on speed-dial. They had us on their black list.

Jodi Taylor

#71. I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

James Branch Cabell

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

Nicholas Samstag

#73. In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to someone who had hurt her.

Deborah Bedford

#74. I do, said Robin in a ringing voice, looking straight into the eyes, not of her stony-faced new husband, but of the battered and bloodied man who had just sent her flowers crashing to the floor.

Robert Galbraith

#75. 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

#76. My battered heart will always be
where the ocean meets the sand, I
will break over and over
Every day. That is the best and
worst part of me.

Clementine Von Radics

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

Donald E. Westlake

#78. Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.

Henry David Thoreau

#79. Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Roger Kahn

#80. Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it ...

David Bowie

#81. It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

William Butler Yeats

#82. My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil.

Richelle Mead

#83. When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.

Konnie Huq

#84. I want your heart, Sin. (Callie)
It's battered and useless, but what remains of it is all yours, milady. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#85. We were battered and dinged, both well past the weight limit in personal baggage. And, like the rest of humanity, it would be our destiny to be tossed and torn by events unseen and unplanned. But that didn't stop me from hoping we could somehow navigate it together.

Paula Garner

#86. Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the thing - those silly dolls get hit all the more for it.

Kresley Cole

#87. I may have survived, but I am broken," I remind him sadly.
"No, Sunny, you're just a bit battered. We both are. Or if we're broken, that's only when we're alone. But now we're together, baby! And together, we're both whole.

Olivia Lynde

#88. In spite of Mr. Poe's fame, the pair made me feel out of sorts, and sad. In one of the busiest cities in the world, they seemed to exist on a bleak island of their own making, their backs turned against the social tide lapping at the battered door.

Lynn Cullen

#89. Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right.

B.J. Novak

#90. The gods had vanished, her mother had once claimed. But had they? Had it been some god who had visited tonight, clothed in the skin of a battered young woman?

Sarah J. Maas

#91. Love was such a delicate thing, requiring tissue-paper touch and the safest place, yet there it was out in the real world, where it got battered by storms of ill will and bad circumstances and demons of your own or of other people. Love didn't stand a chance.

Deb Caletti

#92. 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

#93. But it wasn't a sentimental romance. It was more like a battered estate wagon in which they bounced along together, sometimes cheerfully amused by the same joke, other times grimly tolerating one another and determined to get where they were going.

William Kuhn

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

Rick Allen

#95. My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes ... eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

Terri Clark

#96. I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
had made him fugitive: he was the first
to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
as Italy and the Lavinian shores
Across the lands and waters he was battered
beneath the violence of the high ones for
the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

Virgil

#97. If the guy across from me was a cherry-red Ferrari, then I was a rusted-out and battered John Deere tractor in comparison.

Jay Crownover

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

Azar Nafisi

#99. The power to homogenize is the heavy artillery that has battered down all Chinese walls.

Guy Debord

#100. She's beautiful - broken and battered, still the most beautiful woman in the world to me - the only woman in the world for me.

Elizabeth Finn