Quotes About Being Bashed

#1. I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.

Carey Mulligan

#2. The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Jeff Buckley

#3. What's the glory in living? Doesn't anybody ever stay together anymore?

Michael Martin Murphey

#4. Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters. None of them go hungry to bed at night.

Audre Lorde

#5. Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Bill Vaughan

#6. How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in.

Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you'll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That's the way our strange world works.

Richie Norton

#7. It was enough to make me feel like retreating into some wooded or snowy clime, where only the most determined photographers or Mary-hunters might find me.

Tara Altebrando

#8. it's about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a song, the soul of it, so that something real happens inside you when a man opens his mouth to sing, and don't you want to feel something real rather than just having your poor earholes bashed in?" He

Zadie Smith

#9. To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.

Jane Roberts

#10. We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

Neal A. Maxwell

#11. It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it's not the best America can do.

Jeb Bush

#12. The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.

Uwe Reinhardt

#13. Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

Joseph Lancaster

#14. I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

Anne Lamott

#15. Jeff [the werewolf] cocked his head and stared at me like I had just turned into a were-rabbit. Admittedly, this was a tremendous improvement over wanting to tear me limb from limb. Well, shave my ass and call me a poodle. How the hell did you manage that?

Jim C. Hines

#16. You only have one trip. You might as well enjoy it.

Iris Apfel

#17. Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#18. Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

Mary Kay Andrews