Battered Quotations

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

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.

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital.

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

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.

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

Leslie Klein came up with a huge hit today. Camille Harris has just been a warrior for us. She is battered and bruised, but she continues to make plays. It was a good sweep.

No one in the family played a musical instrument, we did not even possess one between us, all we had was a battered old gramophone, a 1920s model.

One thing I'm not going to do is walk away from this team in their present bruised and battered state and give it to some young lad and say, 'Here, you take them out there,'

I don't believe what I did with Marta was illegal or was unethical or wrong, ... She was being battered and I invited her into my home. I provided her with assistance, I helped her get back to Guatemala, and I believe that was an act of compassion.

I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!

I'm all battered and I feel pain but I hope I can continue. My goal is to win a stage soon.

I don't think we were battered at all. We just missed tackles. They were self-inflicted wounds.

He followed them from battered women's shelter to battered women's shelter. That's kind of the worst-case scenario.

He's a bit sore, battered and bruised but he has no broken bones. He was taken to hospital but was allowed home last night. He's having a couple of days off and hopefully he'll be back for the weekend. We'll just have to wait and see.

has been beaten and battered the last 24 hours.

There are still people issues, and some power issues, and the industry is bruised and battered like everybody, ... But it's getting better every hour, and every day.

Kari has carried us on the boards all year. She has improved so much. She put in a lot of time in the off-season. When it comes to the state tournament they just don't call as many fouls, especially off the ball. She's been bruised, battered and bloody. She's a warrior. I love her game.

I think the gains (in New York) were mostly due to short-covering on battered issues.

Our total consolidated earnings were obviously battered by the charges related to our Brazil investments. However, we continue making good progress in streamlining our business portfolio.

Our mission is to help recovering addicts, battered women and children. If they need it, we have it.

It explains Scott was helping to rebuild a deck at a home for battered women and noticed that an approximate 22 year old young man was staring at him. It was Scott's claim that he had tutored this young man as a child at St. Vincent de Paul Center for Homeless Children when he was in high school.

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.

Unlike other homeless women, a battered woman has been the victim of power and control. She believes she can make no decisions. She doesn't know what her options are. To be successful, battered women need a lot of handholding in the beginning.

Unfortunately, the SARS effect is concentrated on Asia -- long the fastest-growing region in the world and the one area that essentially had been keeping the global economy afloat. To the extent that this source of global resilience is now being undermined by disease-related panic, an already bruised and battered global economy has little left to lean on.

We have made significant increases in providing shelters, hot lines and restraining orders to protect battered spouses and mandatory arrest for domestic violence incidents, ... And the largest beneficiaries have been men. The biggest drop is in women killing husbands.

We've been battered all week, and at least (the players) have responded. We showed courage to take them on.

The system was holding up ... the American economy kept getting battered and battered and battered and it was still standing and indeed, as of Sept. 10, it was still standing,

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.

Dell Computer ( DELL : Research , Estimates ) is battered down here, revenue growth put into question as the whole technology group has been put into question but I think, you know, going forward that Dell will be a winner here and I think it should be bought at these levels.

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.

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing. It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing, ... It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

This battered Caravanserai / Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day.

This legislation removes the unfair barriers that currently hinder the ability of battered immigrants to escape domestic violence safely and prosecute their abusers.

It was a totally technical rebound after the decline of Thursday. The stocks that stood out were blue-chips that were battered previously, especially the service and telecommunications sector.

It's like a battered child syndrome where she was being abused over a period of time, and was obviously the only one, since the other children had no injuries.

It's been a tough time, just brutal. We've all felt battered in some way.

The new Violence Against Women Act provides a comprehensive approach to combating domestic violence and sexual assault, ... It stiffens penalties for repeat offenders, provides more money for vital services and will help battered women get the assistance and support they need. It also focuses on breaking the cycle of violence through education and helping rural victims in under-served areas.

I mean, the play-calling, the offense is so predictable. Guys are getting battered every day. They're getting fined for wearing a hat to practice, you know. It's just horrible over there, the atmosphere. And you could feel it on the field. It was almost like you're playing against a team that couldn't wait until the season was over.

I know the frustration you must feel, ... I feel it too?. I'm here to ask you not to yield, because there are still families that need a hospital in South Los Angeles, who deserve one, and who do, in fact, have one, battered as it may be.

I just remember my finger bleeding because he throws such a heavy ball. He absolutely battered my hand. Not too many guys can do that much damage. My finger would just crack because the ball would just pound in there.

In the past five to six weeks, blue chips got battered somewhat. As we approach the end of the quarter, now that they've come down in price, institutions are focusing on them again.

But I have made no conscious effort to look battered and bruised. It is just the way one feels when one is put in a certain traumatic situation.

But I certainly feel stronger emotionally and happier in myself, if not a little battered and bruised.

The manufacturing sector has been so battered that it's too early to say the troubles are over in that sector. But we're seeing the economy making some kind of a bounce after contracting in April. We have to see now whether or not that continues.

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

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice Stout of step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors And ironed Starched white Shirts How they led Armies Headragged Generals Across mined Fields Booby trapped