Top 32 Bested By Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Bested By

#1. Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.

Louise Gluck

#2. It's a dreadful assertion to make that once the war is over, the lesson learned, the conclusion drawn lies anywhere but in the verdict 'slaughter'. The dead are very quickly forgotten. But it's extraordinary - and a good thing too - how we're bested by them in this respect.

Jacques Yonnet

#3. I have not lived for millennia to be bested by a half-blood whore and her puppet prince." ~ Valenti

Pippa DaCosta

#4. Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.

Simone Elkeles

#5. He was bested by a better fighter, ... I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

Antonio Tarver

#6. A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.

Sue Mengers

#7. There are few joys in life more utterly satisfying than defeating your adversary, and together sharing in the incontrovertible truth that you have bested him.

Brad Murray

#8. He was so delighted when I bested him that he slapped me on the back and sent me flying into a tree, which I knocked down. It was a hundred year old oak.

Robyn Peterman

#9. Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.

John Flanagan

#10. I'm not designed to interact with society.

Damon Galgut

#11. You've good speed and agility, and endurance enough. But you've no killer in the blood, and so you'll always be bested." Iona rubbed her butt. "I never planned on killing anyone." "Plans change," Branna pointed out. "Fix those flowers now, as it's your rump that crushed them.

Nora Roberts

#12. You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!

Paul Washer

#13. I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.

Danny Boyle

#14. Shai's Uncle Won had taught her that being bested was a rule of life. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy. Last

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Americans ... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

Barack Obama

#16. Fear and, to a lesser extent, greed are what make money move.

Michael Lewis

#17. Poetry helps deliver messages. Poetry is an art; play with the words, the rhymes and your emotions. Experiment; discover yourself. This is exactly what I expect from you. Be creative, let the words guide you, never hold back, write as it comes, and edit later.

Jude Ouvrard

#18. I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?

Jason Schwartzman

#19. I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.

Denis O'Hare

#20. Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.

Daniel Habil

#21. This was the man who'd bested her.
This was the man she'd have to kill today.

Sasha Alsberg

#22. Prince Ahmad crouched over the headless body, the scout at his side. "you say a mere priest bested you?"
"He weilded his sword like a master. I never saw such a display."
The prince mocked the soldier. "Then let us pray we don't meet the Pope.

Galen Watson

#23. He fought the men and he slayed the monsters and he bested the gods, and at last the hero, having conquered all, earned the thing that he wanted most. To go home.

Victoria Schwab

#24. Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Edward Albee

#25. Athena always lived between two worlds: what she felt was true and what she as been taught by her faith.

Paulo Coelho

#26. Ghostly, in his mind, Ben heard the librarian reading to the little ones: Who is that trip-trapping upon my bridge? The children lean forward, all the old fascination glistening in their eyes: will the monster be bested ... or will It feed?

Stephen King

#27. You ... you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?
What? Oh ... yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

Edward Albee