Beaten Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

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 could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.