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  • "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.

    Art   Writing   Mean  
  • Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume
  • I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

    Rams   World   Way  
    Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.6, GENERAL PRESS
  • 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.

    Looks   Benefits   Quiet  
  • There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd say, "I like it. I think it's good." So he's open. He's not battering it into you.

    Home   Thinking   World  
    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

    Wall   Cities   Rams  
  • 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.

    Rams   Fiction   Way  
    John Dos Passos (2015). “The Best Times: An Informal Memoir”, p.222, Open Road Media
  • 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.

  • Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

    Dog   Weather   Justice  
  • I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding. When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.

    Gun   Circles   Air  
    James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.538, CUP Archive
  • The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

    Self   Safety   Heartfelt  
    "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.
  • 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, Erin Healy (2009). “Kiss”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.

  • If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

    Heart   Rams   Break  
  • No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

  • Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.

  • I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.

    People   Singing   Arms  
    Talking about his drinking days. Quoted in Pamela Stephenson Billy (2001).
  • When I left the secretary of state office, I had a 69% approval rating. Once I start running for office and all the incoming you know is battering away, people are going to say, "Hey, wait a minute - what's that mean, what's that mean?" I get all of that, but I don't think we do any service to our country or the voters if we descend into the kind of insult fest that he seems to relish.

    Running   Country   Mean  
    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

    Passion   Rocks   Trouble  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Stupid   Rams  
  • Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

    Prayer   Heaven   Storm  
  • 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.

    "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.
  • 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.

  • 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?

    Summer   Strong   Health  
    1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Morning   Men   Wife  
  • The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.

    Beach   Color   Sky  
    FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Oct 29, 2012
  • I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

    Heart   Poverty   Wave  
  • A complete transformation seemed to have place in my life overnight. It was quite staggering, and thenceforward visitors and invitations continued to pour in daily until they became a source of grievance to our landlady, who was obliged to engage an extra servant to respond to the battering of powdered footmen on her humble and somewhat flimsy door.

    Humble   Doors   Visitors  
    Lillie Langtry (2000). “The Days I Knew”, p.37, Panoply Publications
  • 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.

    Real   Taken   People  
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