#batter

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#better #down #likes #misfortune #much

Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— George Herman

#easy #out #striking

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#bombed #britain #continental #derived #distrust

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#battery #car #go #guarantees #live

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson. ↗

— James Longstreet

#any #batteries #before #city #diversion

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#batters #best #day #hitting #pitch

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. ↗

— Ann Rule

#away #back #battered #books #cause

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#battery #field #thousand #worth

Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want. ↗

— Sinbad

#apple #battery #beta #complain #everything

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to the one who had hurt her. It happened all the time. Some women came here seven or eight times before they made the choice to give up on their marriages and refuse to live in a dangerous place. ↗

— Deborah Bedford A Morning Like This

#family #marriage #pain #women #family