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Quotes About Beaten

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.
~ Dean Koontz
I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession which must have been painful to her, that it was a first step down from the ideal she had formed for me, and that for the first time she, with all her courage, had to confess herself beaten.
~ Marcel Proust
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
This was the life she had been in mourning for. This was the life she had beaten herself up for not living.
~ Matt Haig
Greger gave us a faraway look. 'Now you'rrre getting somewhere, lads! This is Holgerrri.' I turned to Niila and muttered a gruesome premonition: 'By God, but he's going to get beaten up." 'What?' said Greger 'Oh, nothing.
~ Unknown
Fairy tales are more than true–not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
~ Neil Gaiman
Fairy tales are more then true, not because they tell us that Dragons exist. But because they tell us Dragons can be beaten.
~ Neil Gaiman
The parable about the Good Samaritan tells how a Samaritan rescues a man who is mugged and beaten by robbers on the Jericho—Jerusalem road, a notoriously dangerous stretch of highway. To understand how this story must have shocked the Jews, imagine someone telling a story about "The Good Nazi." The Jews and Samaritans hated one another.
~ Unknown