Best 58 quotes in «beaten quotes» category

Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.

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

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

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.

I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

I've never been beaten up! I'm a black belt in Run-Fu.

No-one gets beaten to death quite like Hilary Swank

Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.

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

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

The voice is nothing but beaten air.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!

You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

A part of Astrid felt sorry for Sam. She knew he was still a long way from being over the beating he had taken from Drake. One look at him now, head hung, looking small and scared, was proof of that. But he wasn’t the only one to be terrorized by Drake. Drake had come after her, early on. If she thought about it, she could still almost feel the sting of his slap on her face. He’d made her… He’d bullied her into calling Little Pete a retard. He’d terrorized her into betraying the person she loved most in the world. She had managed to put it out of her mind. Why couldn’t Sam do the same?

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

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

Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.

Beth’s voice broke. “I can’t lose you guys.” And there it was. She sat here bleeding because she loved me and Isaiah. For the millionth time, I wished the system was a person. One person I could name, know and hold responsible for screwing every single one of us. Right now, Beth’s mom’s new boyfriend would have to do.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

In a polished surface of metal I happen to notice my reflected face; it wears a pale, beaten lonely look, eyes looking out at nothing with an expression of fear, frightened and lonely in a nightmare world. Something, I don’t know what, makes me think of my childhood; I remember myself as a schoolchild sitting at a hard wooden desk, and then as a little girl with thick, fair, wind-tossed hair, feeding the swans in a park. And it seems both strange and sad to me that all those childish years were spent in preparation for this – that, forgotten by everybody, with a beaten face, I should serve machinery in a place far away from the sun.

You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die." "I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . ." "Gary Frankel?" The nicest, geekiest guy in school? For the first time I scan Alex's face and see a faint, new scar above his eye and nasty ones by his ear and neck. "Oh, God! W-what did they d-do to you?" He takes my hand and places it on his chest. His eyes are intense and dark, like they were the first time I noticed him in the parking lot that first day of school senior year. "It took me a long time to realize I needed to fix everything The choices I made. The gang. Bein' beaten to within an inch of my life and branded like cattle was nothin' compared to losin' you. If I could take back every word I said in the hospital, I would. I thought if I pushed you away, I'd be protectin' you from what happened to Paco and my dad." He looks up and his eyes pierce mine. "I'll never push you away again, Brittany. Ever. I swear." Beaten? Branded? I'm feeling sick to my stomach and tears sting my eyes. "Shh." He puts his arms around me, rubbing his hands across my back. "It's all right. I'm okay," he chants over and over again, his voice catching.

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.

Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.

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

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.

Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches.

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.