Beats Quotes - Page 38

• The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.

  John Moffitt

  Ocean, Land, Upset

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• I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Paper, Pounds, Impossible

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• I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

  Stuart Law

  England

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• O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Heart, Green, England

  'Ode upon Eckington Bridge'

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• Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

  Roy Wilkins

  Black History, Way, Civil Rights

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• By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
  Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
  Dark behind it rose the forest,
  Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
  Rose the firs with cones upon them;
  Bright before it beat the water,
  Beat the clear and sunny water,
  Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Daughter, Dark, Moon

  'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'

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• For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Farewell, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips.

  O.C.

  Hip Hop, Flip, Microphones

  Song: My World, Album: Jewelz

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• According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to
  live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came
  in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much.
  Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime.

  David Letterman

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

  Will Rogers

  Golf, Men, Long Ago

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• There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Discipline, Hug

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• To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.

  William Osler

  Ignorance, Diagnosis, Wiser

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.102, ACP Press

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• The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Reason, Minutes, Five

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• Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

  Gerald R. Ford

  Best Effort, Missing, Strive

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• A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

  Davy Crockett

  New York, Numbers, Tree

  Davy Crockett (1835). “An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East: In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four. His Object Being to Examine the Grand Manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and Also to Find Out the Condition of Its Literature and Its Morals, the Extent of Its Commerce, and the Practical Operation of "The Experiment" ...”, p.37

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• I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.

  Dylan Thomas

  Inspirational, Black, Vehement

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• The same heart beats in every human breast.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Breasts, Humans

  Matthew Arnold (1856). “Poems”, p.319

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• They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Over You, Dying

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• The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say we understand; we're here to help and on your side.

  Charlie Norwood

  Your Side, Negative, Needs

  "Interview with Congressman Charlie Norwood". Dynamic Chiropractic Interview, www.dynamicchiropractic.com. April 20, 1998.

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• It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Age, Youth, Touring

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• My life has been awaiting you. Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Romantic, Heart, My Own

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• Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on — can you hear me? Pass it on!

  Toni Morrison

  Brother, Kissing, Land

  "Song of Solomon". Book by Toni Morrison, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1977.

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• You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Advice, Grace

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• No one is easy until you actually beat them.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, Easy

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• You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Winning, Names, Mma

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