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A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused. — Sue Grafton

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. — H.G.Wells

It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking. — Robin Hobb

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch — Dave Pelzer

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem. — Jamie Farr

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

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself. — Michael Arad

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 like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will. — Tre Cool

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody. — Maya Angelou

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

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington

My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected. — Paul Lynde

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

Authority - when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats - makes people shut down & productivity ceases. — John Stoker

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

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. — John Galt

Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long. — Iggy Azalea

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

I hate it when people use the word 'sorry' aggressively, as in, 'Sorry, but I hate you.' Sorry's an important word, and it shouldn't be abused. — Robert Webb

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker. — Mahatma Gandhi

How many abused souls - dogs and humans alike - have remained in an unloving place because staying was far less terrifying than leaving? — Ted Kerasote

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

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

The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election. — Nicky Hager

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

When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way. — Joe Peters

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

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse. — Tyler Perry

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself. — Joe Biden

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

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen — Joyce Meyer

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

...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim. — Mike Lew

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

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told. — Patty Hearst

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

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives. — Johnny Hunt

I've been spat on and shat on
And raped and abused. — Shane MacGowan

I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused. — Anne Heche

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

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

Liberty must not be abused. — Louisa May Alcott

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit. — Danny Wallace

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. — Mahavira

No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature. — Deepak Chopra