Beaten Quotes

• Fairy tales are more than true.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dragons, Fairy Stories, Fairy Tale

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• Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strength, Stay Strong, Moving Forward

  "Rocky Balboa". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Childhood, Half

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• We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

  Nathanael Greene

  Art, Military, War

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Thinking, Boxing

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• He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed me, were as follows: 'Well, Dr. Weismann, we have as good as beaten them already.' I...thanked him for his constant support for the Zionist course. 'You were standing at the cradle of this enterprise.' I said to him, 'and hopefully you will live to see that we have succeeded.' Adding that after the war we would build up a state of three to four million Jews in Palestine, whereupon he replied: 'Yes, go ahead, I am full in agreement with this idea.'

  Chaim Weizmann

  War, Agreement, Ideas

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• Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

  Doug McClure

  Sound, Cards, Hallmark

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• When life has beaten you up and you can't see a way to go on. Trust that tomorrow will change your fortune.

  Jon Jones

  Trust, Goes On, Way

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• I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Eggs, Sugar, Sometimes

  "Baking With Dorie Greenspan: Breakfast casseroles, pasta salad, brownies and more". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

  Amy Bloom

  Perseverance, Team, Winning

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books

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• We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Sri Lanka, Finals, Three

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.

  Irina Tweedie

  Teacher, Yoga, Teaching

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• I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

  Charles Bukowski

  Long Ago, World, Alleys

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• A beaten general is disgraced forever.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Forever

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• It was as if we had beaten a country, more than just a football team.

  Diego Maradona

  Soccer, Football, Country

  "Diego Maradona in quotes", www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2004.

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• From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

  Petrarch

  Journey, Mountain Peaks, Hiking

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• The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

  Niall Ferguson

  History, Empires, Genocide

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• We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

  Amy Levy

  Way, Path, Walking

  Amy Levy (2006). “Reuben Sachs: A Sketch”, p.192, Broadview Press

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• Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, Army, Storm

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2016). “The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812 (Complete)”, p.427, Library of Alexandria

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• If you're looking for someone who can beat the RAW divas, perhaps you should choose someone who's beaten every diva on RAW.

  Mickie James

  Wwe, Beats, Should

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• I think everyone in all due respect just needs to calm down Chris Weidman just because he’s undefeated. He’s undefeated because he’s beaten a bunch of bums. He’s only had about seven fights. I’ve had nearly 30 fights. I’ve been in the UFC when he was still in school probably. So I got nothing against Chris Weidman, but I don’t see him as the Great White Hope that’s going to come in and destroy Anderson Silva. He’s just another middle of the road UFC fighter as far as I’m concerned.

  Michael Bisping

  School, Fighting, Thinking

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• You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

  Alejandra Pizarnik

  Bird, Built, Finished

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