Beat Quotes - page 2

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition. (W. Chan Kim)
If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. View quote
Groucho Marx
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. View quote
Mel Brooks
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on. View quote
Muhammad Ali
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. View quote
Yogi Berra
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. (William Butler Yeats)
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. View quote
Davey Havok
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure. View quote
William Wordsworth
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. View quote
Toni Morrison
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. View quote
Antonio Gramsci
So we beat on, boats agains the current. Borne back ceaselessly into the past. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. View quote
Nina Simone
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't. View quote
Robert J. Shiller
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. (Charles Portis)
every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. View quote
J.R. Ward
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. View quote
Eve Ensler
If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter. View quote
Jacques Pepin