#beating

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#begins #draw #get #glamorous #keeps

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cemetery #drum #funeral #graves #heart

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this. ↗

— Rick Fox

#beating #best #come #going #got

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#appointed #beating #been #come #heads

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conductor #every #feel #i #instantaneously

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 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

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