- Nov 07, 2020
Battered Quotes
On struggle, resilience, and creating through hardship.
These battered quotes explore creative struggle, including the admission of needing to feel Bruised and battered before writing well.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bruised
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tuition fees have formed part of a full-frontal assault on the living standards of a generation battered by a housing crisis, stagnating wages and slashed services.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cripple
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
- Fold
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- Nov 07, 2020