Quotes About Being Beaten Down

#1. The dialectics of hunger, the dialectics of poverty. How people move from resignation and from callousness to cynicism and being beaten-down, and anger and self-destruction ... and finally to anger and violence which can become very creative in the process.

Anonymous

#2. ... there is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.

Barbara Lieberman

#3. I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

Daniel Radcliffe

#4. Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

Judith Orloff

#5. People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

Werner Herzog

#6. The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

Muhammadu Buhari

#7. The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

Bob Schaffer

#8. We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

David Souter

#9. I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

Roseanne Barr

#10. If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

Sandra Bullock

#11. War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

John Dos Passos

#12. Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

George Herbert

#13. Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Oprah Winfrey

#14. SOMETIMES I SYMPATHIZE WITH SIRIUS' MOTHER. I'D WANT TO BLAST YOU OFF MY FAMILY TREE TOO.

Birdy Jones

#15. I wither slowly in thine arms; here at the quiet limit of the world, a white hair'd shadow roaming like a dream.

Alfred Tennyson

#16. I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#17. But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

Sharon Gless

#18. I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

Julian Casablancas

#19. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON

Kingsley Amis

#20. Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

Robert Kirkman