Beaten Quotes - Page 17

• He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Track, Study

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.87

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• Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.

  Tori Murden

  Path, Never Regret, Beaten Path

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• Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Normal

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• In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Taken, Dark, Midnight

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.35, Weiser Books

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• When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

  Robert Ley

  Pigs, Ordinary, Would Be

  "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy". Book by Adam Tooze, p. 529, June 29, 2006.

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• I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

  William Wetmore Story

  Heart, Humble, Hymns

  William Wetmore Story, “Io Victis”

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• Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Men, Biographies, Written

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• I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fate, Japan

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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• Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Track, Woods, Behinds

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• Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Games

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Chapter 29, 1866.

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• The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

  Niall Ferguson

  History, Empires, Genocide

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• We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.

  Helenio Herrera

  Soccer, Football, Tonight

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• No-one gets beaten to death quite like Hilary Swank

  Jimmy Fallon

  Hollywood, Film, Swank

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• They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none.

  Simon Brotherton

  Football, Real, Champions League

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• I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

  John Bradshaw

  Hurt, People, Numb

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• A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Two, Numbers

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• I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Pain, Mouths, Shots

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• Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

  John Wyndham

  Done, Should, Ashamed

  John Wyndham (2010). “The Chrysalids”, p.89, Penguin UK

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• What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Intelligent, Men, Hands

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• My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Games, Grandfather, Goalies

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• He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

  John Steinbeck

  Ideas, Laughing, Victory

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.173, Penguin

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• I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Helping Others, Opportunity

  Press Conference, October 08, 1996.

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• Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.

  Walter Scott

  Flower, Pride, Dark

  Walter Scott (1821). “The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake”, p.13

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• That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.

  Mark Helprin

  People, Unions, Want

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Loss, Unnecessary, Enough

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1995.

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