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Tag Name "Battered" (53)

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The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.
Nita Lowey
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He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as well.
Carl Froch
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I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.
Princess Diana
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
David Eagleman
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The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, Enna, you might watch your language. Enna grimaced. I was. You should hear my thoughts.
Shannon Hale
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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
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When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.
Suze Orman
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Keep unscathed the good name keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.
Virgil
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There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.
George Carlin
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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.
William Butler Yeats
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Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling there have been grand chords.
James Salter
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Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.
John D. Voelker
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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
John Quincy Adams
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
Aberjhani
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There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.
Laura Schlessinger
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What about this? I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. It sounds romantic. Xavier wrinkled his nose. Disney... I don't think so. Why not? Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down. I won't tell if you don't, I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. The things I do for you, He said with an exa
Alexandra Adornetto
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I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.
Lynn Woolsey
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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
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Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?
Mamie Till
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The desire of Lain Americans to live in just and egalitarian societies is too strong it cannot be destroyed overnight. There were some serious setbacks - in Argentina and Brazil. And Venezuela is suffering immensely, battered by its own shameless elites sponsored from abroad. But the country is still standing.
Andre Vltchek
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Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.
Michael Grant
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