Beaten Quotes

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

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.

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.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

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.

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

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

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

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

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

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.