Quotes with beaten

  • One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
  • Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
  • Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
  • They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
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  • Bruce Springsteen Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Orwell If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Orson Scott Card It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.
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  • John Burroughs One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Samuel Butler 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
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • John Tillotson Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Herman Melville The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bob Schaffer The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Virgil They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Alice Miller 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
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • D'Amato Cus To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
    D'Amato Cus
    American boxing manager and trainer
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  • Abraham Lincoln Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Maris Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bill Kurtis With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • George S. Patton You're never beaten until you admit it.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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