Battered Quotes

• Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

  Roger Kahn

  Boxing, Kidneys, Halls

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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  Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

  Jim Morrison

  Sex, Truth, Honesty

  "Into This House We're Born". Book by James Hunt, p. 262, July 1, 2006.

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Strong Women, Adversity, People

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Love, Summer, Clothes

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

  Ann Rule

  Book, Wife, Want

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• I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

  Langston Hughes

  Wind, Snow, Looks

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

  Aberjhani

  Prayer, Eye, Hot

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

  Stacy Schiff

  Cities, Pages, Naples

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• The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound, starved, raped, mutilated, battered, and tortured by their parents and other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippled adults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restage their early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars.

  Lloyd deMause

  Children, Growing Up, War

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• In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

  Dido Armstrong

  Thinking, Bmw, Facts

  "What went right?". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2001.

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• Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Long, Faces

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

  Nathaniel Branden

  Struggle, Fighting, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

  Amanda Hocking

  Nice, Rain, Book

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• 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

  Phones, Worst Person, People

  "Pop Quiz: Bruce Dickinson of Iron". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. October 15, 2006.

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• Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Men, Mouths, Want

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals, educators, youth and other concerned citizens can play in fostering a reawakening of America's battered public memories.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Fighting, Artist

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Men, Giants, Might

  Katharine Susannah Prichard (1983). “The Roaring Nineties: A Story of the Gold Fields of Western Australia”

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• Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Earthquakes, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• 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

  Commitment, Gay, Loss

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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• The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

  Carl Jung

  War, Men, Epidemics

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• 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

  Anchors, Wind, Wave Of Life

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• When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.

  Derrick Jensen

  Home, Talking, Important

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.75, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—‘off with his head!’ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven

  Joseph Parker

  Men, Heaven, Challenges

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