I've Been Beaten Down Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Everyone wants to impress somebody...
- That's how it works!

Deyth Banger

#5. Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

William Shakespeare

#6. I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

Nathan Lane

#7. One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#8. It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

William Bolitho

#9. The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.

James Laughlin

#10. Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...

Christina Stead

#11. Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robert Gass

#12. Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

Amy Goodman

#13. Monsters always prey on the people who've already been beaten down.

Craig Schaefer

#14. I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession which must have been painful to her, that it was a first step down from the ideal she had formed for me, and that for the first time she, with all her courage, had to confess herself beaten.

Marcel Proust

#15. She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn't afford to anger them. She wouldn't do it.

Cory Doctorow

#16. Drove Voldemort out . . . though Dumbledore, of course,

J.K. Rowling

#17. I'm running on adrenalin when we're shooting. It's non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.

Tatiana Maslany

#18. My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

Thich Nhat Hanh