Beaten Quotes - Page 9

• Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.

  Pierre Corneille

  Christian, Heaven, Stronger

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• 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.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Lying, Winter

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• The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be retained (although not always), but the suffering caused by the way you were mistreated will remain unconscious and will later prevent you from empathizing with others. This is why battered children grow up to be mothers and fathers who beat their offspring

  Alice Miller

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.115, Macmillan

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• Could beauty be beaten out,
  O youth the cities have sent
  to strike at each other's strength,
  it is you who have kept her alight.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Cities, Youth

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

  Troy Vincent

  Life, Mother, Brother

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• I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

  Ronnie Radke

  Wells, Left, Bruised

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• When it came to spankings, my dad never used a belt. One time he grabbed a piece of my Hot Wheels race car track. In my mind I'm thinking, 'Great, now I'm being beaten with my own toys...' Thank God I didn't get that wood burning set I wanted.

  Scott Wood

  Dad, Thinking, Race

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• When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.

  Richard Cecil

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

  Voltaire

  Men, Hammers, Anvils

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• Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

  Ted Turner

  Important, Looks, Defeat

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

  John Lubbock

  Heart, Too Much, Discouraged

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• The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

  Johnny Depp

  Movie, Challenges, Actors

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• I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

  Thomas Paine

  Argument, Guides

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.163, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

  Gloria Steinem

  Childhood, Instinct

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

  D.A. Wallach

  Expression, Risk, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

  Yannick Noah

  Eye, Fighting, Hands

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• I'm ready. I feel like I can't be beat. You have to feel like that being a fighter. I just feel like this is a bigger type of energy. I feel like I've beaten so many odds. I feel kind of invincible. It's going to be a good fight.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Fighting, Odds, Energy

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• You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Sheep, Lions, Way

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• If you never quit, you're never beaten.

  Ted Turner

  Persistence, Never Quit, Quitting

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• Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!

  Adam Johnson

  Motivational, Adversity, Overcoming

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• 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.

  Eve Ensler

  Tired, Honor, Victory

  "Eve Ensler on “good” bodies and bad politics". Interview with Andi Zeisler, www.motherjones.com. November/December, 2004.

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• I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.

  Javier Bardem

  Baseball, Sex, Mean

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

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• It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what it is, but so much so that it overwhelms both sense and the senses. I aspire to something about his work, that imbues his poems, though I'm not sure I could say what that is. A purity, maybe, the kind of purity that comes from being beaten, like steel.

  Dorianne Laux

  Smell, Feelings, Steel

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• Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Thinking

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