Top 36 Quotes About Battering
#1. Evil must be attacked by ... the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#2. If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram ... 'if only' could break your heart.
Alexandra Ripley
#3. The ocean," I said, "look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished. It's nice to be a champion. It's nice to know your moves.
Charles Bukowski
#4. It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to be
these days, when I got this call. I could hear the rain
battering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.
C.S. Woolley
#5. I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.
Louisa May Alcott
#6. It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.
Samuel Blumenfeld
#7. 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
#8. Now that she had got over the surprise, there was something offensive about this lack of reaction. It was like someone opening a door just before your battering ram hit it; suddenly you were running through the building and not certain how to stop.
Terry Pratchett
#9. No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me.
-Istak
F. Sionil Jose
#10. Folk take a battering but, they do; they get born and they get brought up and they get fuckt. That's the story; the cot to the fucking funeral pyre.
James Kelman
#11. A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
Zhuangzi
#12. The use of charm as a tool made her hackles rise. She respected a more direct approach. A battering ram approach. At least one knew where one stood with the battering ram, none of this butter-wouldn't-melt nonsense that could mean yes, no, or maybe.
Lauren Willig
#13. Anything else?" Yes, my body can dissolve other magic on contact. I'm essentially a battering ram against magic. "No, that's it." Kai turned in place, his eyes scanning the scene. "Something feels wrong here." The magic-dissolving battering ram standing next to you.
Ella Summers
#14. I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.
Sri Chinmoy
#15. I didn't know what we were saying to each other. We were just battering rams of hurt and betrayal.
C.D. Reiss
#16. She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.
Alexandra Bracken
#17. There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.
Jeff Abbott
#18. The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#19. The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.
Lynda Bellingham
#20. Olive thought she had forgotten what pain could be. She was a railway tunnel in which a battering train had come to a fiery halt. She was a burrow in which a creature had wedged itself and could go neither forwards nor back.
A.S. Byatt
#21. Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.
Rosamond Marshall
#22. "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.
Harriet Monroe
#23. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
Fanny Howe
#24. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.
Mark Lawrence
#25. When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
Joe Slovo
#26. This benefit of seeing ... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image ... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
Dorothea Lange
#27. I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
Billy Connolly
#28. O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?
William Shakespeare
#29. No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.
Michael Parenti
#30. How terrible it must be to be a member of the noble class. So many rules. Such restraint. You must feel like a caged bird, battering its wings against the sides of its golden prison.
Fiona Paul
#31. Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.
Jeremy Grantham
#32. If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.
Jojo Moyes
#34. [F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.
Stephen Baxter
#35. Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
Elizabeth Bowen
#36. Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
Ted Dekker
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