Beaten Quotes

• Fairy tales are more than true.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dragons, Fairy Stories, Fairy Tale

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• Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strength, Stay Strong, Moving Forward

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Childhood, Half

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• We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

  Nathanael Greene

  Art, Military, War

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Thinking, Boxing

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• He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed me, were as follows: 'Well, Dr. Weismann, we have as good as beaten them already.' I...thanked him for his constant support for the Zionist course. 'You were standing at the cradle of this enterprise.' I said to him, 'and hopefully you will live to see that we have succeeded.' Adding that after the war we would build up a state of three to four million Jews in Palestine, whereupon he replied: 'Yes, go ahead, I am full in agreement with this idea.'

  Chaim Weizmann

  War, Agreement, Ideas

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• Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

  Doug McClure

  Sound, Cards, Hallmark

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• When life has beaten you up and you can't see a way to go on. Trust that tomorrow will change your fortune.

  Jon Jones

  Trust, Goes On, Way

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• I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Eggs, Sugar, Sometimes

  "Baking With Dorie Greenspan: Breakfast casseroles, pasta salad, brownies and more". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2016.

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• As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Talking, Effort

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Genius, Path

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.41, Penguin

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• At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Girl, Stupid, People

  "Kendrick Lamar: the rise of a good kid rapper in a mad city". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

  George Lucas

  Simple, Track, Simple Life

  "George Lucas: No, Star Wars is not supposed to be funny" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Doe, Gone, Lbj

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, School, People

  "Drew Barrymore Admits Her Directorial Debut Whip It Has the Pain of Her Childhood". The Mail on Sunday Interview, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. March 14, 2010.

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• One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

  Samuel Butler

  Sunset, Fighting, Men

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Success, Witty

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• I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

  Davy Crockett

  Dog, Men, Littles

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 133, 1994.

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• I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

  Rita Dove

  Children, Thinking, Talent

  Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  Idris Elba

  Order, Years, Law

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• I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.

  Will Ferrell

  Dark, Parent, Secret

  "The $29 million man". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Giving, Soul

  "Forgiving Others and Trusting God . . . a Handbook for Survivors of Child". Book by J. E. Norris-Bernal, p. 16, 2011.

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