Beaten Quotes - Page 4

• Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.

  James Herbert

  Rain, Fall, Sea

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• How many of y'all wondered, like I did, during the LA riots when those people were being pulled out of their trucks and beaten half to death - step on the f***ing gas, man! They're on foot, you're in a truck - I think I see a way out of this.

  Bill Hicks

  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Wells

  "Going well over the top: the link between Monty and Mikey" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2005.

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• Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

  Horace Bushnell

  Abuse, Wonderful, Force

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.427

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• It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm.

  Susan Mitchell

  Drawing, Gold, Moments

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• Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Taken, Swallowing, Taste Buds

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• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Irritation, Long

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• If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

  Raymond Aubrac

  Fighting, Feelings, Chance

  "Nazi era French Resistance leader dies" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.

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• I've never been beaten up! I'm a black belt in Run-Fu.

  Tre Cool

  Running, Black, Belts

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• If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.

  William Shakespeare

  Scarves, Kinky, Proud

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.224

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• I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

  Bob Barker

  Animal, Elephants, Circus

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• No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Mistake, Men

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• More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.

  Phyllis Rose

  Appreciation, Dark, Vocabulary

  Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan

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• It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions.

  Paul Bocuse

  Appreciation, Teaching, Off The Beaten Path

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• In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

  Michael Josephson

  Courage, Might, Wonderful

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• People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

  Charles Mathias

  Courage, People, Want

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• What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Daughter, Mother, Creativity

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• The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Life Changing, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  Bear Bryant

  Encouraging, Going Out, Ems

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• Looking at her, bedraggled and beaten, some might have seen weakness. He saw strength, determination, and a will no one could crush.

  Nalini Singh

  Crush, Determination, Healing

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.425, Penguin

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• With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Disappointment, Military, War

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• Beaten paths are for beaten men.

  Eric Johnston

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  "Speaker's encyclopedia of stories, quotations, and anecdotes" by Jacob Braude, 1955.

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• The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

  Andre Malraux

  Things In Life, Important, Life Is

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• Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

  Ann Voskamp

  Soul, Yardsticks, Picks

  "How the Hidden Dangers of Comparison Are Killing Us ... (and Our Daughters): The Measuring Stick Principle" by Ann Voskamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.

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• When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

  Susan Polgar

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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