Battered Quotes

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

Truth, Sex, Tell

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

Down, Triumph, Likes

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

Life, Again, Matter

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.
Colin Farrell

Home, End, Laugh

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
Rick Allen

Character, Old, Rather

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn

Until, Boxing, Bleed

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

Time, Drunk, Become

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

Famous, Rich, Old

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.
Douglas Hurd

Growing, Europe, Distrust

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

Women, Away, Books

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, Book, Old

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.
Victor Davis Hanson

Hope, Past, Sacrifice

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

Old, Around, House

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.
Michael Baden

Living, Learned, Same

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