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.
Richard Wright

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
Nigel Kneale

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

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.
Thomas Mellon

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
Roger Bannister

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.
Bob Schaffer

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

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.
Kevyn Aucoin

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

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.
Alice Miller

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.
Giulio Douhet

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
Ralph Peters

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