Beats Quotes - Page 39

• Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Heart, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.46

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• Don't argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in a arguement. It's impossble you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing cause we have a need to make sense

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Wall, Fall

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• Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him

  Charles Barkley

  Fans, Hell

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, edition.cnn.com. November 22, 2004.

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• The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

  Coventry Patmore

  Wings, Midges, Thousand

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Night, Silence

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• Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

  George Brett

  Winning, Yankees, Years

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• One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.

  Daniel Ortega

  Baseball, Play, Hands

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• For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Past, Challenges, Mind

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• For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You-Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

  Jermain Defoe

  Football, Player, Games

  "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes 'great feeling' of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

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• The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.

  John Moffitt

  Ocean, Land, Upset

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• I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

  Stuart Law

  England

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• Roll the weed up
  Somebody turn the beat up
  While I continue to spit relax and kick yo feet up
  Mac game so cold make yo nose runny
  Mac game so cold takin' hoes money

  Mac Dre

  Weed, Games, Feet

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• I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
  I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

  Eminem

  Real, Air, Hip Hop

  Song: Bad Meets Evil part II, Album: The Slim Shady LP, 1999

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• All I need is one mic
  One beat, one stage
  One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page
  Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib
  One god to show me how to do things his son did.

  Nas

  Girl, Son, Gun

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• I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had to play to beat her. I just did everything I could in the moment. I was very focused for every point. I knew that I had to go forward for every shot I was playing to push her back, and yeah, I did it.

  Petra Kvitova

  Play, Today, Moments

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• The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.

  John Vance Cheney

  Happiness, Sweet, Heart

  Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard (1904). “The World's Best Poetry ...”

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• The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Life, Cutting, Swings

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

  Betty Liu

  Business, Data, Needs

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• Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

  Will Rogers

  Golf, Men, Long Ago

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• As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

  Michael Connelly

  Music, Anchors, Bassists

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• Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

  Michael Connelly

  Music, Heart, Momentum

  Michael Connelly (2011). “Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)”, p.2660, Hachette UK

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• Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Squares, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Way, Comedy

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• There's no one alive I can't beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Alive, Chess, I Can

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