Beaten Quotes - Page 9

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

John Landy

Running, Inspirational Life, Thinking

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The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

Nigel Kneale

Thinking, Ideas, People

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I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don't. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don't be beaten down by naysayers. Don't let the odds scare you from even trying.

Howard Schultz

Courage, Heart, Odds

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Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.

Robert Musil

Depression, Strong, Emotional

Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't it's almost certain you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. A happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

John C. Maxwell

Attitude, Men, Thinking

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On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

Chuck Noll

Leadership, Team, Battle

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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.

Joseph Stalin

Fall, Mean, Progress

Joseph Stalin (1970). “Selected writings”

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The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.

George Edgar Vincent

Courage, Fun, Heart

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I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

Stephen Fry

Mother, Suicide, Teenager

"Why Russia's Sochi Olympics are now a battleground for gay rights" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2013.

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Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.

Dianne Feinstein

Girl, School, Knowing

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A man can be beaten in two ways, if he gives up or he dies.

Richard Machowicz

Giving Up, Men, Two

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You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

Georges Danton

House, Down And, Salt

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They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

Gertrude Bacon

Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Thomas Campion

Inspirational, Funny, Weather

'Two Books of Airs' (1612/1613) no. 11

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If you choose to get off the beaten path here, you'll find yourself in a situation where everything looks the same.

Joe Teti

Off The Beaten Path, Survival, Finding Yourself

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Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

Ezra Taft Benson

Constitution, Vote, Thread

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Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

Kabir

Life, Wise, Dream

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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Alexander Graham Bell

Track, Woods, Certain

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The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Hunter S. Thompson

Reality, Smell, Missing

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I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

Dorothea Dix

Insane Person, Gentleman, Cages

Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4

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England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

Colin MacInnes

Football, Baby, Sweet

"Out of the way: later essays".

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God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin. Our sin

Francis Chan

Hate, Son, Thinking

Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.36, David C Cook

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I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

Clement Freud

Men, Thinking, Police

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I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

Brenda Fricker

Pain, Hockey, Abuse

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I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

Jack White

Jobs, Off The Beaten Path, People

"The Flipside With Jack White: Finding Music In The Art Of Auctioneering". "The Flipside" with Bob Boilen, www.npr.org. February 28, 2011.

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