#beating

Could it think, the heart would stop beating. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#could #heart #stop #think #would

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy. ↗

— Dan Rather

#democracy #fiercely #free #freedom #heart

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#child #effectual #fitter #generally #more

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy. ↗

— George A. Romero

#catholic #classmates #funny #funny guy #guy

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death. ↗

— Tom McMillan

#been #conquering #death #nature #now

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#am #army #beating #boxer #boxing

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#everybody #give #gold #gold medals #medals

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. ↗

— Helen Keller

#desire #distant #door #equal #forever

My heart was beating out of my chest. ↗

— Swoosie Kurtz

#chest #heart #out

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#another man #beating #finger #guys #high