#beat

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well. ↗

— Bruce Paltrow

#back #beating #believe #corner #get

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#chocolate #give #had #heartbeat #i

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. ↗

— John Lennon

#beauty #life #nature #sadness #beauty

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

#become #conductor #every #every nation #following

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. ↗

— Bill Schuette

#cops #more #most #neighborhood #offenders

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#artist #beatnik #emptiness #existentialism #art

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for "The Passion of the Christ"? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff. ↗

— Rob Schneider

#beatings #best #christ #first #first of all

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#bitter #else #fast #feeling #heart

Who are you? What’s your name?” “Mi Mi.” “Do you hear that thumping noise?” “No.” “It must be here somewhere.” Tin Win knelt down. Now it was nearly next to his ear. “I hear it more and more distinctly. A soft pulsing. You really don’t hear it?” “No.” “Close your eyes.” Mi Mi closed her eyes. “Nothing,” she said, and laughed. Tin Win leaned over and felt her breath on his face. “I think it’s coming from you.” He crept closer to her and held his head just in front of her chest. There it was. Her heartbeat. ↗

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

#heartbeat #love #sounds #art

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#christopher #hathaways #kleypas-hero #love-in-the-afternoon #love