Top 30 Battered Quotes

In this post, you will find great Battered Quotes from famous people, such as Isobelle Carmody, Dick Cavett, Tom Odell, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Ada Louise Huxtable. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being

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.
Isobelle Carmody
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
There’s always a part of my brain saying: ‘Stop getting comfortable. Don’t relax.’ Because I find it difficult to write when I’m happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.
I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?
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
Me and my momma getting together on this foundation for battered women.
I only wrote one diary to be read by others. I went on an exchange to France, working as an au pair, when I was 14 and in a battered red notebook I wrote my experiences for my father to read later.
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I’ve had for years and years. None of them are digital.
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
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover – one-time child prodigy – should be up your alley. I don’t, and it isn’t up mine.
The Smurfs – and they’re this way in Peyo’s comics as well – do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon characters Wiley Coyote and Tom & Jerry.
Israel‘s behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.
The Celts were harder than anyone else, tougher, and rugged. We battered everybody.
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
If the door is nailed shut, and you’re ‘Leaning In,’ you’re just going to get bruised and battered.
Saunders didn’t beat me. I wasn’t battered or shown-up. I made the mistake of not pressing him early, pacing myself too much because it was my first 12-round fight.
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.
You come for the money, you don’t come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you’ll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn’t matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.
Bunker Roy
Sometimes I’ve been more emotionally disturbed by the experience of shooting a comedy than a drama. After ‘We’re the Millers’, I think playing this battered loser who’s confidence was at zero for 90 percent of the movie, I did genuinely feel that way.
When I speak to a victim or their family, people who were left bruised and battered by someone, and can give them some small relief, I know I’m winning in some small way, and I’m part of a process that sometimes works.
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
On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life – from residents at a battered women’s shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees – and learn about their lives and struggles.
I will never change. In years to come, I’ll still be that Geordie lass walking round South Shields with a battered Mars Bar!
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
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesusfold.
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.
Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a ‘battered wasteland’ where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive.
I’m not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.