#beaten

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

#brings #commonly #end #his #journey

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#daring #forward #game #ideas #like

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

#beaten #had #out #passion #passionate

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. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#because #child #day #different #different schools

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

#beaten #books #dream #experience #i

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

— James Larkin

#badly #beaten #bones #fight #make

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

— Abraham Lincoln

#beaten path #genius #hitherto #path #regions

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#beaten #everything #getting #his #least

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

#beatings #children #give #humiliated #humiliation

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#beaten #eye #face #i #kicked