Top 100 Beaten Quotes
#1. There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.
James Baldwin
#2. Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.
Dean Koontz
#3. Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#4. I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.
Bryan Cranston
#5. I dropped the blood-coated chair leg and collapsed to my knees. I couldn't swallow. I couldn't breathe. I was splattered with blood. I'd never beaten someone to death before. It had felt good.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#6. I thought I'd won the match when she'd fallen into my arms, heart and all. The truth was, she'd beaten me. Snatched my soul and shattered all the lies I'd built around me to keep the pain of connecting at bay.
Lyla Payne
#7. Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.
Ben Aaronovitch
#8. Consider this on your birthday
You've got life's struggle beaten
For 60 years you've ate
And avoided being eaten
John Walter Bratton
#9. We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.
Daniel Gillies
#10. Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
#11. Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
Daniel Everett
#12. J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.
Ashwin Sanghi
#13. Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.
Zach Wahls
#14. If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
Ghassan Kanafani
#15. I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.
Kim Kardashian
#16. I wrapped my arms around his neck, drawing him closer. Oh God, it was so out of control, but in this really sweet, beautiful way. I never thought I'd be allowed to have that feeling. I thought it had been completely beaten out of me, but there it was, untouchable and clean.
Sarah Fine
#17. I think voters are very sophisticated, very strategic. They know that Hillary Clinton can be beaten. And so they will look at Donald Trump, and they will look at Marco Rubio, they will look at Ted Cruz, and maybe John Kasich and say, "Who can beat her? Who's the best matchup?"
Hugh Hewitt
#18. Carter may have just beaten the crap out of me, he may have shot me in the back, but he'd bought me Dr. Pepper. I know it was effed up, but somehow, it balanced out.
Emily McKay
#19. Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. A phantom fish, half beaten to death, wriggled in my stomach.
Mike Mehalek
#21. Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse.
Louise Penny
#22. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
Amy Bloom
#23. I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class. From really knowing you're more awesomely intelligent than anybody else, but also being the guy who got beaten up for being Jewish.
Walter Isaacson
#24. Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.
Walter Scott
#25. He knew there was no one to restrain him now, and he knew that he was beaten. But an animal will always fight for its life to the bitter end; no animal ever licks the boots of his executioner.
Georgi Vladimov
#26. My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
Charles Bukowski
#28. I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.
Charlotte Bronte
#29. One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler
#30. When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.
John Cleese
#31. I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.
Dorie Greenspan
#32. Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.
Vince Lombardi
#33. You should be beaten for that. (Valerius)
Try beating me, you sorry piece of shit, and I'll force-feed you that black heart of yours. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. G. K. Chesterton once said, 'Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.'" She
Claire Stibbe
#35. I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.
David Gest
#36. On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.
Jodi Picoult
#37. I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now.
Jim Butcher
#38. 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
#39. I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up.
David Haye
#40. We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.
Meir Soloveichik
#41. In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#42. If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.
Denise Chavez
#43. You're not beating when you lose, you're beaten when you quit.
Jesse Brock
#44. The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
John Bunyan
#45. Tanith immediately told them that Valkyrie had beaten up a priest and an old woman.
Derek Landy
#46. It has ever been thus. The way is hard and narrow, it is true. But it is a path beaten smooth by the countless others who have gone before us. And good news! We do not have to walk it alone. God Himself is with us and has blessed us with friends for the journey.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#47. I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.
Javier Bardem
#48. I might have been chained, starved, and beaten, yet that monster couldn't totally crush my spirit. Over and over I chose to get back up and keep going.
Michelle Knight
#49. 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
#50. When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
Markus Zusak
#51. If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.
John Edwards
#52. I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
Elisabeth Shue
#53. I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
Wayne Brady
#54. Don't use the buckle," she told him with a laugh, her eyes closed, head bent.
"I haven't beaten a woman with my belt before, Simone. That doesn't mean I don't have any clue about how to do it.
Megan Hart
#55. The beaten time can't back but try to make it more valuable than money
Azhar Sabri
#56. Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.
Abraham Lincoln
#57. My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'
Miley Cyrus
#58. If you do what you did yesterday you'll be beaten. If you do today what others are doing you'll be competitive. To win you much be doing today what others will be doing tomorrow.
Robert De Castella
#60. I picked up On The Road, Howl, and Naked Lunch (in that order) in high school. I was blown away. The writing was amazing and the places it took me was even more far out. It opened up new avenues of thinking for me and so I went down the beaten road.
Yony Leyser
#61. Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there's a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.
Robert Jensen
#62. But seriously, what were his parents thinking? Naming their son Richard Updike? Did they want him to get beaten up his entire adolescence?
Carolyn McCray
#63. By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.
Derek Landy
#64. 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
#65. The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.
Oliver Goldsmith
#66. I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
Leila Janah
#67. True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.
Rumi
#69. Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier not to feel.
Shannon Hale
#70. The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#71. If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.
Francis Quarles
#73. If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
Raymond Aubrac
#74. When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.
Robert Ley
#75. When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#76. Still he plied the lash without stint upon my poor body, until it seemed that the lacerated flesh was stripped from my bones at every stroke. A man with a particle of mercy in his soul would not have beaten even a dog so cruelly.
Solomon Northup
#77. You know, your sarcasm isn't appreciated right now. I've been drugged, beaten, nearly raped, saved, drugged again, hijacked, and now threatened by you. Tell me, what else should I look forward to? Torture, or just a good maiming? (Kiara)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#78. Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.
Isaac Asimov
#79. If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.
RZA
#80. Caballero said the CIA's psychological torture methods often degenerated into physical torture, citing a young woman who was stripped, starved, deprived of sleep, beaten, burned, electrically shocked and sexually molested.
Anonymous
#81. 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
#82. Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.
Leo Tolstoy
#83. If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
Tim Conway
#84. Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#85. Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#86. We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#87. I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.
Bill Parcells
#88. 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
#89. Hey what's your name"
"Candi." She's hesitant, like that beaten dog Jade mentioned. "Candi Woodward."
"I'm Ayla Monroe."
She laughs uneasily. "I know."
"Out, Candi Cane," Jane orders.
Roxanne St. Claire
#90. Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.
Jeremy Clarkson
#91. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.
Kris Kidd
#92. We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
Woodrow Wilson
#93. It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.
Martin Amis
#94. Hope doesn't like to be beaten down, though, does it? Hope is what gets us through. Hope, and the prayer it wants to become.
Jan Ellison
#95. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Neil Gaiman
#96. At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.
Kendrick Lamar
#97. We were the wolf pack, we were the killers of Britain, we had fought from the south coast of Wessex to the northern wilds, from the ocean to the sea, and we had never been beaten, and these men knew it.
Bernard Cornwell
#98. Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.
Haruki Murakami
#99. There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don
Steve Waugh
#100. Woe to those who were never beaten! They will never be winners in this life.
Paulo Coelho
