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Beaten Quotes (page 6)

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Terry Prachett
He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused. Jack London
Jose Saramago quote: "A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man..."
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended. Jose Saramago
When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head. Thomas Love Peacock
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled..."
The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows Barbara Kingsolver
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been... Charles Darwin
Napoleon Bonaparte quote: "There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind...."
There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind Napoleon Bonaparte
The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten. T. H. White
My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten."Tell him to take out the goalie. Charles M. Schulz
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read Johnny Cash
Robert Mugabe quote: "I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ..."
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once. Robert Mugabe
Bernard Law Montgomery quote: "I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it."
I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it. Bernard Law Montgomery
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. Alice Miller
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
Ulysses S. Grant quote: "In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider..."
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. Ulysses S. Grant

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