Beaten Quotes
472 Beaten quotes by 399 unique authors
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My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that…
— Charles M. Schulz
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A frightened man is a beaten man.
— George R. R. Martin
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If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
— Ghassan Kanafani
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My name is Cassie Palmer and I’ve cheated death more times than anyone has a right to expect. In the last two months, I’ve been…
— Karen Chance
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The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
— Walter Dean Myers
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
— Andre Gide
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That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would…
— Julie Garwood
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To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he…
— Brandon Sanderson
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A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe.…
— John le Carre
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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
— John Steinbeck
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Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.
— Edith Wharton
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I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the…
— Charles Colson
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As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so…
— Charles Darwin
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Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or…
— Jonathan Evison
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When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
— Markus Zusak
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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst,…
— Saint Augustine
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It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.
— John Flanagan
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why…
— Ernest Hemingway
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There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.
— Tom Clancy
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His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.
— Marisha Pessl
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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone…
— Maya Angelou
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Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend…
— Unknown Author
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the…
— David Hume
Who Wrote These Beaten Quotes
399 authors contributed a total of 472 Beaten Quotes, led by these top contributors: