Beaten Quotes
472 Beaten quotes by 399 unique authors
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On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were…
— Molly Ivins
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
— Mark Twain
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The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child…
— T.H. White
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who…
— Terry Pratchett
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He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him.…
— Jack London
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On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down…
— Jack London
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It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.
— Christopher Paolini
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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
— Jose Saramago
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Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive…
— Haruki Murakami
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Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of…
— Sylvia Plath
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Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.
— Jodi Picoult
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A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.…
— Neil Gaiman
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I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
— John Wyndham
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For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
— Markus Zusak
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What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We don't want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don't want to go back to way things were." She sounded on the verge of tears.…
— Terry Goodkind
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You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist.…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And…
— Anne Rice
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See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten."…
— William Goldman
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I love him. (Artemis) How can you say that? You don’t even understand what love means. Love isn’t being ashamed to be seen with the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I, for one, am exhausted. I’ve been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked…
— Markus Zusak
Who Wrote These Beaten Quotes
399 authors contributed a total of 472 Beaten Quotes, led by these top contributors: