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I was abused my family was the "brady bunch
— Dave Pelzer
I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?
— Justina Chen
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
— Joseph Joubert
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
— Christopher Moore
The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.
— Jess C. Scott
Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.
— Frank K. Sonnenberg
Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.
— Gyles Brandreth
A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason
— Lucinda Brant
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
— John A. Powell
We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society.
— Audre Lorde
Oh, I know that she's disgusted,cause she's feeling so abused.
She gets tired of the lust,
but it's so hard to refuse. — Elvis Costello
Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
— Jerry Della Femina
Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
— Eugene Ionesco
It was easier to scribble over memories a person didn't want to remember, so they searched for these people - the abused and neglected.
— Sean DeLauder
We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.
— Billy Graham
Any powerful technology can be abused.
— K. Eric Drexler
Abused people cling to their abusers.
— Robert Galbraith
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
— William Davenant
Every error is truth abused.
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Abused patience turns to fury.
— Thomas Fuller
I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.
— Maya Angelou
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
— George Washington
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
— Euripides
Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.
— Mona Charen
If liberty is abused, get ready for an awkward result
— Sunday Adelaja
That did explain his sucky home life growing up but didn't excuse the way he treated others. Was there childcare for abused werewolves?
— Jazz Feylynn
A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
— Henry David Thoreau
The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.
— Dee Hock
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
— Harry S. Truman
The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.
— Tanya R. Liverman
Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees ... Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.
— Margaret Sanger
Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
— Samantha Morton
Repetition is the mute language of the abused child.
— Judith Lewis Herman
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.
— Samuel Johnson
As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all,
— Elizabeth May
Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
The word 'change' has been abused so many times.
— Najib Razak
God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
— Catherine Deneuve
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Any time freedom is allowed it will be abused. This is not a flaw in freedom (else police states might be more desirable) but a flaw in humanity.
— Zach Weinersmith
The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.
— Simon Munnery
Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.
— Kiefer Sutherland
I'm like an abused puppy, so desperate for attention that it's almost a surprise when I get belted in the gut.Again. — Talia Vance
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst ... They are for nothing but to inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ugly. I am black inside, rotting and putrid.
— Aimee L. Salter
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
— Dora Russell
Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.
— Asa Don Brown
I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.
— Cobie Smulders
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
— Charles Caleb Colton
My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
— Oscar Wilde
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
— Samuel Johnson
A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years.
— Gavin De Becker
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
— Satish Kumar
Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?
— Bill Willingham
Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.
— Asa Don Brown
There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.
— Louise Penny
He doesn't hurt us anymore."Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore. — Melanie O'Shea
For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.
— Pope Francis
You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,
— Gillian Flynn
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
— Christina Baker Kline
Oh, forget it. I'm over love. It's nothing but a weapon. Properly used, it protects us. Properly abused, it dissects us.
— Anthony Paull
I've been spat on and shat on And raped and abused. — Shane MacGowan
I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.
— Jermain Defoe
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
— Francis Quarles
If we purchase items made by underpaid and abused workers, we participate in their exploitation.
— Julie Clawson
The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.
— Jean Vanier
The will of the nation is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Abuse doesn't define you.
— C. Kennedy
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
— William Shakespeare
Liberty must not be abused.
— Louisa May Alcott
