Beaten Quotes

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

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

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

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

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

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.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

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

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

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

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

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

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

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.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

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

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

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.