Beaten Quotations

Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.

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

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

I had a brilliant trip to Mexico with my friend Ellie during my gap year. We thought we were being really cool and going off the beaten track while all our friends went to Thailand and Australia. The first beachside bar we walked into - there were two girls from my sixth form in there.

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.

I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

I guess we all have that 'Dig Me' space, where we have some of our things displayed. Mine's a little bit more off the beaten path. You're not going to see it as soon as you walk into my house, but it does exist.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,' or go back to an old, beaten path - do some smaller things that I haven't done in 15 or 20 years. Just to sort of get my feet wet, because I haven't done my own material for a couple of years - I've been doing a lot of other things.

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.

Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.

In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.

J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.

Muncie is off the beaten path for us, but Marsh stores lie along our path in many communities.

I was really proud of how the guys came back. We were beaten about as badly as you can be last Wednesday.

I was pleased with the fourth-place finish. Alan had the best finish of any runners we've had at this meet. All of the teams ahead of us are quality teams. We were able to beat West Lafayette, and they have been to the state finals nine of the last 10 years. It was the first time we have beaten them.

I would say: 'Are you crazy man, or what? There hasn't been a bigger win. We've never beaten Team Canada and to beat all those NHL stars, it's unbelievable.

I wouldn't say we know we're going to be successful. Anytime you've beaten a team in the past, it gives you a confidence to know that if you do the right things, you have the capability of doing it again. But past success doesn't indicate future success.

We had a very good day. This is the first time we've beaten Princeton this year, and to beat both Princeton and Washington by good margins is very pleasing. We ran a great race.

We had beaten them by four the first time but that was when our defense was unpredictable and sloppy, it was actually quite good this time. We've put together two good defensive efforts in a row, which we hadn't gotten, so we're making progress. It took us a while but we finally did it.

We had beaten Whitehouse earlier 5-0, but I knew it could be different this time. They were coming off a couple of wins in this tournament and were playing pretty well, I thought.

My guy beat me at Midlands but then I majored him last year. They have two guys at 141, and I've beaten both of them. I really don't think it matters. I'm just concentrating on going one match at a time and getting to nationals. This is my last year and I want to end on a big note.

Obviously, you hear a lot of Patriots this, Patriots that. Rightfully so: They've beaten us every year since I've been here.

One reason I'm happy about winning tonight is that we've never beaten Riverton Parke since I've been coaching.

No one gives us respect. They do, but kind of begrudgingly. But we haven't beaten anyone in the playoffs yet, and we need to win playoff games to get respect. Everyone in the room knows that.

Of course it was embarrassing. You're not supposed to get beaten like that on national television. We have to take it on the chin and come back.

Of course I wish Asafa had run, ... I think the world record would have been threatened if he was there, and I think I would have beaten him.

No doubt, these kids have a lot of incentive. We've never beaten them. But we haven't beaten a lot of teams.

Obviously, Houston gave us a game. (The Cougars) could have, should have beaten us they played so well.

Obviously if we had beaten Medford, it would have been hard for them to be seeded above us. It might still be hard for them.

Obviously it was a great round, I don't think it will be beaten for awhile,

Now that the other guys on the team have experienced this, they'll be even more ready next time. We've never beaten them in our career, so we're ready to get out there again - it's about respect.

People were a little stunned, a little beaten up at the end of last (season).

Obviously, the seeding is based on a lot of different things. They were a great team, they played in a tough league, they've beaten a lot of good teams this year.

Obviously, these guys have beaten them before at their place. I wasn?t with them at the time, but we know it?s doable. I think it?s going to be another knock-down, drag-out (game), but I think we have the confidence and the tools to get it done.

My first personal reaction is that it's maybe not surprising since Mars gets beaten up a lot by impacts.

I have been on this team for four years and this is the first time we have beaten Fallbrook. Guys from past years who used to be on this team kept telling me that we wouldn't be able to do it, so it's nice to show them that it could be done.

I got in there as mentally tough as possible. I knew he was going in knowing that I had beaten him before. I think he may have tired himself out too quick.

I don't give a damn what we are, ... Donovan McNabb is questionable and they're talking about him having surgery. No, if the guy's able to play, you play. We've got to win games. We haven't beaten the Jets in 20 years. I've got a lot of concern with this game.

If we rested three or four players and then got beaten by two points, we'd be kicking ourselves.

If we hadn't beaten Cal and Arizona back-to-back you could sit and say this team never has demonstrated any ability to compete with guys at the top level programs. But we did.

Last year we beat you in a trial and you won the premiership. Now we've beaten you again.

Look, she really screwed up and it had a profound effect on her career. To me, it seemed it wasn't fair for someone that young to be that severely beaten up. So we're letting her come back.

We made a lot of changes this year and thought we'd gotten much more athletic. I didn't know we were going to have the same problems on the defensive end. Guys are getting beaten off the dribble like drums, and then when the help comes, the other guys aren't coming in.

Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him. His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.

Mike King knew Peg Collier, whatever she sent in, would get beaten down. Mike King knew there was going to be kicking, fighting and screaming before (the bill) got to the entity authorized to pay.

Most people thought they'd get beaten by St George and beaten by the Broncos.

She appeared to have been beaten severely. In addition, she had approximately a six to eight inch cut in the abdomen.

She had been beaten unconscious. She was covered in blood. She had this cord wrapped around her neck.

She has already easily beaten her best throws from last year and she's just consistently getting better each meet.

She has had a really good week. She's beaten some good players. Just have to keep improving with every match. It's going to get tougher and tougher as you go along in the tournament.

Silverado was the only team that really spanked us, ... I thought we should have beaten Hurricane.

Silverado was the only team that really spanked us. I thought we should have beaten Hurricane.

Sears is an American institution that's getting beaten up, ... The company is trying everything it can to stay in business but it's still losing market share everywhere.

Scott came very close to winning the championship at 135. He had a big day for us. In the semifinals, he beat a kid who had beaten him by technical fall earlier this season. So he had a very big day.

O Nanak, the one who is blind shows others the way, and misleads all his companions. But, going to the world hereafter, he shall be beaten and kicked in the face; then, it will be obvious, what sort of guide he was!

O Nanak, without serving the True Guru, they are bound and beaten in the City of Death, they arise and depart with blackened faces.

On another day, they might have beaten us.

She was beaten repeatedly. She was bound like an animal.

She's had a really good week here. She's beaten some good players.

The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplished craftsmanship nor even correct grammar but a frank report of the things a writer has done, seen, and thought. None of these can be learned in the library or classroom. They have to be learned in the unsheltered world of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten into their heads.

We've never beaten Alfred-Almond before. It's been a real nice week for my girls after beating Addison. The girls worked hard and they deserved everything they've gotten this week.

We've never beaten Valley in the tournament, We've always lost to them even when I was playing. We've probably played them about six times and always lost. Same as Hyde we've never beaten them, either. This was a long time coming.

We've never felt this through our whole careers here at Wisconsin. It's unbelievable. You just can't explain it. This is the first time we've beaten Minnesota in our careers and you're just ecstatic.

I have beaten her many times. We will see what happens

Hardy had beaten me twice before in my career. I was down match point in the second set but I came back. It was tit-for-tat in the third set when I cramped up. Despite the loss, it was the most fun I have ever had on the tennis court.

Half the people who voted for him last time are looking for an alternative. Your poll shows that he can be beaten without the need for a runoff in a primary and that he is unelectable in the general election.

has been beaten and battered the last 24 hours.

He knows an any given day he can be beaten if he doesn't wrestle.

I couldn't see the shot, but I knew he was going high-glove. I saw his face move, I saw his head move and I knew the shot was coming. I knew where he was going with it and I knew I was beaten right away.

I am used to doing dramatic work, but its fun to grab a gun, and go running around, getting beat-up. Its fun to do the action stuff, because it is really physical. There is nothing like getting into a character by getting beaten up physically.

Frank is a massively intelligent man. It's difficult to sum up but he can watch a game in which we are beaten by 60 points and tell us to one or two things differently and make us win a game. He is so good at pinpointing what the most important things are.

'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

If we would have maybe closed some of those games where we had leads going into the fourth, or the last four minutes, we could be right there. We've beaten some good teams. I think if some of those games would have went our way, we'd be in the playoffs, but they didn't. I think we have the talent here. We just have to pull it together and execute better.

If anybody saw (the Memphis game) and knows we've beaten Arizona and LSU, if they don't think we're a tournament team, then they don't know basketball. I've taken worse teams than this to the Sweet 16. I don't think I have to lobby for it.

From the beginning of the season, Tel has improved 100 percent. He's beaten some very good kids in the past two tournaments. He's just been tearing it up.

I don't think our confidence should have dropped, but it has because of the way we've been beaten on the road. We're a good team, and a great team here in Assembly Hall. It's going to be a war.

For us this means a lot, because we have some seniors who have never beaten this team the whole time they were here. We were doing it for them and for ourselves so we could say that Manatee will do it again.

I don't think we've ever beaten them. They're very athletic and will present a huge challenge.