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  • I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

    Mother   Husband   Kids  
  • We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

  • There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

    Country   Voice   Unity  
  • There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.

  • Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing in disorder from a victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

    Lonely   Hypocrite   Army  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • If you never quit, you're never beaten.

  • 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 (1942). “Flight to Arras”
  • Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.

    Guy   Kim   Blast  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

    Two   Boxing   Tennis  
  • I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That's how things started in Germany. Guantanamo was modeled after what Stalin developed for the Gulag.

    "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.
  • A man can be beaten in two ways, if he gives up or he dies.

    Giving Up   Men   Two  
  • Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that freedom does not exist in the rest of the world and not even in the rest of our country. There are places where they are going backward, away from freedom. Places where same-sex couples are beaten, killed, not allowed to raise families, forced to hide their lifestyle.

    Country   Sex   Couple  
    "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.115, Cambria Press
  • He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

    Pain   Distance   Impact  
    Jack London (2016). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • 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.

  • A beaten general is disgraced forever.

    Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”
  • There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

    Giving Up   Two   Way  
  • I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

    Long Ago   World   Alleys  
    Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.103, Canongate Books
  • Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

    Party   Class   Likes  
  • I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

    Heart   Humble   Hymns  
    William Wetmore Story, “Io Victis”
  • 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.

    Drawing   Gold   Moments  
  • First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.

    "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.
  • Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.

    War   Lying   Winter  
  • One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

    Laughing   Way   Beaten  
  • It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

    Fall   Order   Track  
    Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.300, Bibliolis Books
  • My name is Cassie Palmer and I’ve cheated death more times than anyone has a right to expect. In the last two months, I’ve been shot, stabbed, beaten and blown up a few dozen times, and that doesn’t count all the magical ways I’ve almost been killed. I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first.

    Names   Two   Long  
    Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt The Moon: Cassie Palmer”, p.11, Penguin UK
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015
  • I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

    Tired   Honor   Victory  
    "Eve Ensler on “good” bodies and bad politics". Interview with Andi Zeisler, www.motherjones.com. November/December, 2004.
  • The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

    Night   Light   Helping  
    Walter Dean Myers (2009). “Monster”, p.7, Harper Collins
  • I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

    Pain   Hockey   Abuse  
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