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Quotes About Beating

You're not going to beat the meanness out of a mean dog. You start beating a mean dog, it's gonna become more mean. You start beating racists, they're gonna become more racist.
~ Daryl Davis
Court McGee is definitely a name worth fighting - and beating.
~ Robert Whittaker
I picture a heart lying down on the floor of the torso, pulling up the blankets over its head, thinking this pain will go on forever (even though it won't). The heart is watching Lifetime movies and wishing, and missing all the good parts of her that she has forgotten. The heart is so tired of beating herself up, she wants to stop it still, but also she wants the blood to return, wants to bring in the thrill and wind of the ride, the fast pull of life driving underneath her.
~ Ada Limón
Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.
~ Chad Kroeger
In my short film, 'Gasman,' I shot it at a kid's party. And the kids were just having a party - they couldn't care less about our film. But that was great because we got this amazing footage where kids were drinking soda and pop or whatever, and getting that sugar high and beating each other up or dancing.
~ Lynne Ramsay
Some might say that the most potent torment a man could experience would be to see into the beating, bloody heart of his darkest inner soul, to look upon it with perfect and unfiltered clarity. To know the rage, the hate and evil that he was capable of.
~ James Swallow
Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.
~ Charles Ives
"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember anything after that.
~ Bill Cosby
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.
~ Jacques Roumain
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
~ Ambrose Bierce
That's the point, Will. You can't control the beatings. But maybe you can have some control over your happiness.
~ Will Schwalbe
We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.
~ Robert Rubin
So far I had the god of evil and the god of terror on my side. My good-guy image was taking a serious beating. Maybe I should recruit some unicorns or kittens with rainbow powers to even us out.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Binds
Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.
~ Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study
Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
~ Kathy Mattea
I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.
~ Nikki Haley
People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.
~ Didier Drogba
I keep thinking about fire," Piper said. "How we expect Leo to beat this giant because he's…" "Hot?" Leo suggested with a grin. "Um, let's go with flammable.
~ Rick Riordan
This was the kind of thing Oswald Mosley and his British Fascists wanted—a country in which the rule of law was replaced by bullying and beating.
~ Ken Follett
Finally, despite a policy of de-escalation, there will inevitably be situations where state forces do need to escalate. When that happens, we again stress that it must be over fast. To return to Martin van Creveld's analogy, an adult can get away with giving a kid one good whack in public. He cannot administer a prolonged beating. Once the escalation terminates, state forces must make every effort to demonstrate that de-escalation remains their policy.
~ William S. Lind
Although I'm a scratch Ping-Pong player, there is no possibility of me beating a top professional.
~ Matt Kuchar
As ambassador to China, Huntsman never publicly objected to Obama's trade policy, which allows China to take advantage of us - something that Donald Trump highlighted. Challenging Obama on China is one of the keys to beating him.
~ Roger Stone
Well, said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive. Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.
~ L. Frank Baum
Insomma, esiste pure quel congegno che si chiama il cuore umano, e nessuno sa cos'è che lo fa battere.
~ Yukio Mishima