#batter

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

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.' ↗

— Demetri Martin

#batteries #cause #confusion #foreigners #hard

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#electricity #energy #exhaustion #futility #sherlock-holmes

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. ↗

— John Bigelow

#batteries #charge #commence #dawn #early

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same. ↗

— Michael Baden

#autopsy #battered #been #evidence #expertise

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#batter #every #great #him #more

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#batters #i #learned #lot #proud

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

#battered #become #belief #clothes #day

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. ↗

— Elon Musk

#cell #cells #challenge #chemicals #collection

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#battery #brigade #came #clock #confusion