X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Battering" (19)

Page 1 of 1
Filter & Style
Image
Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.
Jeremy Grantham
Image
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Image
If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
Alexandra Ripley
Image
I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
Billy Connolly
Image
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially, but full scale and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
Elizabeth Bowen
Image
Look into thy heart and write! is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, Look nowhere else! The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.
Harriet Monroe
Image
It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.
John Dos Passos
Image
The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.
Lynda Bellingham
Image
Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.
Rosamond Marshall
Image
Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
Ted Dekker
Image
A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
Zhuangzi
Image
This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
Dorothea Lange
Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.
Gregory Benford
Image
There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.
Jeff Abbott
Image
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
Joe Slovo
Image
I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.
Louisa May Alcott
Image
Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Image
It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.
Samuel Blumenfeld
Image
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
William Shakespeare