Quotes About Abused

Jail,' the big cop said in his stuffy, liquid voice. 'Where anything you bray will be abused against you in a sort of caw.

The term 'doctor' has been so abused lately! I didn't live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.

For this, Clio has abused me in language less befitting a Muse than a fishwife. I do not care. I would rather be chidden by Clio than by my own sense of delicacy, any day.

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

She was right about one thing: the harm in the world is done by those who feel disenfranchised and abused. Contented people (as a rule) don't kite checks, rob banks, or kill their fellow citizens.

She was right about one thing: the harm in the world is done by those who feel disenfranchised and abused. Contented people (as a rule) don't kite checks, rob banks, or kill their fellow citizens.

an extremely important trip … just for a week, and there's no way I can possibly refuse. I'll be as quick as I can, on my word of honor." He was immediately ejected from her embrace and roundly abused in terms that were severe but just. He spent the night in the study, on the hard divan

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.

And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They're explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government. We are, after all, fragile living things that can be suppressed and abused by the powerful.

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

The tensile properties of this unratified truce were abused to the utmost of their enduring when the judge stood slightly in the saddle and raised his arm and spoke out a greeting beyond them.

fired, abused, abandoned, or otherwise infuriated, and I feared he would not be comfortable with my getting them to talk. And indeed he did turn out to be skittish when word trickled back to him of

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.' 'But the Magdalen?' 'Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered.

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me, now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass. So that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abused.

There's another matter I need to discuss," he said eventually, sitting up again. "I can't, in good conscience, turn Theo's sisters out of the only home they've ever known." One of his brows arched as he saw her expression. "Yes, I have a conscience. It's been abused and neglected for years, but even so, it occasionally manages to be a nuisance.

These children often drift from one temporary, abusive or neglectful situation to another, and often are routinely drugged to control them ("Prescription for Tragedy, "Los Angeles Times, 5-17-1998). By the time they are legally emancipated adults and return to the streets from which many were rescued, 75% have been sexually abused.

International law is a fiction abused callously, or ignored ruthlessly, by those nations that, unlike the Western democracies, never took it seriously in the first place.