Top 100 Beaten Quotes
#1. I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten ...
Paul Weller
#2. But that's why you pay for insurance, right? If you never file a claim, then they've beaten you.
Jonathan Tropper
#3. I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
Roger Federer
#4. Greger gave us a faraway look.
'Now you'rrre getting somewhere, lads! This is Holgerrri.'
I turned to Niila and muttered a gruesome premonition:
'By God, but he's going to get beaten up.
'What?' said Greger
'Oh, nothing.
Mikael Niemi
#5. Her body felt like it'd been beaten with a hose. This must be what it felt like to get old. It wasn't that your body fell apart from living so long. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them again.
Janet Fitch
#6. You can't really innovate for the past (your offering won't be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.
Braden Kelley
#7. Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
Emile Zola
#8. I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches,
Justin Langer
#9. We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.
Amy Levy
#11. Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.
Thomas Muller
#12. Decide now to enter heaven one day from a life of fullness and walking in depth of revelation of his love, instead of crawling over the line beaten and bruised and discouraged.
Lana Vawser
#13. 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
#14. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. Since physical escape is impossible, the child escapes mentally. She floats out of her body, imagining that somebody else is being raped or beaten, and turns off her emotions, saying, This isn't happening to me.
Marlene Steinberg
#16. How arrogant we are, Adam thought, to deliver babies who can't walk or talk or feed themselves. How sure we are that nothing will destroy them before they can take care of themselves. How fragile they were, how easily abandoned and neglected and beaten and hated. Prey animals were born afraid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#17. To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#18. Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.
C.S. Lewis
#19. I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
Eddie Van Halen
#20. I remember a young Hungarian Jew, his shoulders stooped like an old man's, who confessed to some infraction so as to be beaten in his uncle's stead. "I am young", he said, "and stronger than he." He was young but no less weak. He did not survive the beating
Elie Wiesel
#21. When we learn to loosen our grip and leave our own beaten path, accepting his perfect plan, we give God the opportunity to be our navigator as he reveals the beauty of his creation.
Eve M. Harrell
#22. The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.
Thomas Mellon
#23. No longer can I bear with the ruined god, betrayed and beaten by his own magic. Calling on powers best left unsummoned, he took human beings apart - and then he put them back together again.
Martin Amis
#24. 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
#25. She had beaten the horse and the horse had kicked her in the tits, where it hurt.
Leslie H. Whitten Jr.
#26. I wouldn't let the old voices dictate me; I wouldn't let anyone dictate who I was anymore. I was strong enough to know who I was and I wasn't going to be beaten down again.
J.M. Northup
#27. She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.
Zora Neale Hurston
#28. Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.
Eamon Dunphy
#29. You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began
Alejandra Pizarnik
#30. Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.
Sydney Pollack
#31. If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.
Roger Bannister
#32. We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.
Barry Ferguson
#33. I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.
Roseanne Barr
#34. Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.
William Shakespeare
#35. 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
#36. If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
Augustus William Hare
#37. The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.
Bud Grant
#38. How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.
Rulon Gardner
#39. If you grow up with a wholly negative self-image, thinking you're some kind of reject, an unlovable savage, you think you deserve to be beaten.
E.L. James
#40. Neil didn't care how many hearts they broke that night. They'd beaten USC. When the Trojans lost to the Ravens next week they'd be eliminated from championships. The Foxes were going to finals, and that was the only thing that mattered. -
Nora Sakavic
#41. Now it's 1967. Nasser and the Arabs are saying to themselves: The Jews have beaten us in Round One and Round Two, but we will wipe them out for good in Round Three.
Steven Pressfield
#42. What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.
Neil Cross
#43. Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur
Samuel Johnson
#44. In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority ... Cromwell and Robespierre ... acted likewise..
Bertrand Russell
#45. For all armies are the finest in the world. The second finest army, if one could exist, would be in a notoriously inferior position; it would be certain to be beaten. It ought to be disbanded at once. Therefore, all armies are the finest in the world.
Anatole France
#46. Our favorite games were killing.
Our favorite books were death.
It had been beaten into us:
God is love.
Not the parched face and gnarled
capes across a stick body; jittering
in the nude sky, we couldn't see
trying to touch us
for the blood in our eyes.
Joseph Bathanti
#47. Those final moments, while horrific in one sense, were intimate in another. Perhaps when you finally realized were beaten - that there really was no hope - something was triggered in the mind, allowing you to expunge, accept.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#48. (on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.
Noel Gallagher
#49. Niki blurted out the news. "Some joker in Africa has done a heart transplant!" "Jesus . . ." Kantrowitz groaned. He knew who had beaten him. "Barnard!
Donald McRae
#50. Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. Jinn ... occupy bodies which are in a liminal state ... when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment
J.M. Ledgard
#52. The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
Zebulon Pike
#53. My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.
Michael Gambon
#54. As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#55. The most popular intermediate-term bond fund, among those advisers monitored by the Hulbert Financial Digest who have beaten the S&P 500 over the past 15 years, is the Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Fund, which charges annual fees of 0.20%, or $20 per $10,000 invested.
Anonymous
#56. He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument
Thomas Paine
#57. Dream big and see further! Sharpen your eyes; you have the eagle's sight. Quicken your steps; you have the horse's limbs. All that is a burden for others would be beaten several times by you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. Still, Kasab seemed lucky to Abdul. "They will probably beat him lots in the jail," Abdul said one day, "but at least Kasab knows in his heart that he did what they said he did." That had to be less stressful than being beaten when you were innocent. The
Katherine Boo
#59. One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs
#60. Fear the time when the bombs stopped falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live - for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken.
John Steinbeck
#62. The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
#63. "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."
Janet Morris
#64. It Doesn't Matter who is being beaten up, it's all about the girl who screams like a banshee.
Steve Crapo
#65. What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.
Dada Bhagwan
#66. Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#67. When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.
Steve Buscemi
#68. You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
William Butler Yeats
#69. I have been hit by the Americans and tortured. I have been beaten on every place of my body, and the signs are all over my body.
Saddam Hussein
#70. I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.
D.A. Wallach
#71. There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?
Eve Ensler
#72. If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.
Daniel Okrent
#73. A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
John Ray
#74. Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don't care about life, don't care about death. Nothing. That's the kind of man you are dealing with. That's why I can't be beaten.
Tyson Fury
#75. The theater kids? My God, it would be a bloody massacre. They would be found beaten to death with their own dog-eared The Wiz songbooks.
Jesse Andrews
#76. I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
Stokely Carmichael
#77. Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.
Elif Shafak
#78. A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#79. Families embraced more than had been the habit; fathers who expected to be beaten to death stroked the hair of pretty daughters who expected to be raped.
Louis De Bernieres
#80. In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
Voltaire
#81. Her love for him closed within her like a fist. Nervous, bruised. She despised it. Wasn't it the love of a beaten animal, slinking back to its master? Yet here was the truth: she missed her father.
Marie Rutkoski
#82. The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been on lately, we passengers would have swiftly beaten them to death with those hard rolls you get with your in-flight meals.
Dave Barry
#83. I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#84. I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.
Stephen Pagliuca
#85. Let's just say that life has me beaten ... So I give up! I admit there's no way I can win ... "
"What is it you want, Charlie Brown?"
"How about two out of three?
Charles M. Schulz
#86. 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
#87. I've never been beaten up! I'm a black belt in Run-Fu.
Tre Cool
#88. It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
Usain Bolt
#89. Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!
Rod Stewart
#90. Zel so often put himself outside of where he wanted to be and then looked in dumbly through the window of his longing, hurt and beaten and knowing that he had hurt and beaten himself but still he did it, over and over.
Jeanette Winterson
#91. Someone once told me that just because you're beat-up ... " "Doesn't mean you're beaten,
A&E Kirk
#92. I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
Padgett Powell
#93. For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ... We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or later it is beaten out of us, the glory faded, and by the age of seven most of us are nothing but wretched little adults.
Steven Millhauser
#94. Take thought.
I have weathered the storm,
I have beaten out my exile.
Ezra Pound
#95. What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.
Brian Morton
#96. He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
Plato
#97. The Red Kimono tells it all - the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.
Sandra Dallas
#98. Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.
Tori Murden
#100. All the Danish leaders, had carved into our shield wall with his great war ax, I had faced him, beaten him, and sent him to join the einherjar, that army of the dead who feast and swive in Odin's corpse hall. What
Bernard Cornwell
