Beaten Quotes - Page 5

• The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Night, Light, Helping

  Walter Dean Myers (2009). “Monster”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

  Andre Gide

  Games, Path, Beaten Path

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• That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Way

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.74, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on." "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered. "I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but—" He wouldn't let her continue. "A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month

  Julie Garwood

  Running, Fall, Swear To God

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Clever, Winning, Government

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• He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Grief, Men, Lord

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.417, Macmillan

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• A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

  John le Carre

  Regret, Men, Worst Enemy

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• As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

  Kipchoge Keino

  Motivational, Running, Fun

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• Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

  Edith Wharton

  Grief, Rose, Raindrops

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Truth, Powerful

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• As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Views, Land

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection”, p.296, Courier Corporation

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• Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

  Jonathan Evison

  Taken, Thinking, Dust

  Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.221, Head of Zeus

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• When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

  Markus Zusak

  Lasts, Response, Persons

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.318, RH Childrens Books

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

  John Flanagan

  Weather, Salt, Cheeks

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• They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wise, Life Lesson, Army

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

  Tom Clancy

  Giving Up, Two, Way

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• His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

  Marisha Pessl

  Character, Dove, Inferno

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• Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Change, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend it; but there is no accounting for tastes. Children would not eat these biscuits-nor grown persons either, if they can get any other sort of bread. When living in a town where there are bakers, there is no excuse for making Maryland biscuit. Believe nobody that says they are not unwholesome. . . . Better to live on Indian cakes.

  Eliza Leslie

  Children, Believe, Food

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• Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
  Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
  But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
  Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Strong, Wall

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. 93

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• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

  David Hume

  Army, Government, Patriotism

  Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• You're never beaten until you admit it

  George S. Patton

  Strength, Encouragement, Military

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• I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

  Daniel Johns

  Sympathy, School, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

  Napoleon Hill

  Loss, Winning, Thinking

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.49, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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