#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

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path. ↗

— Jack White

#beaten #beaten path #bizarre #even #i

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#battle #beaten #both #both sides #comes

The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#get #going #message #need #only

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out. ↗

— David Bailey

#beaten #being #choice #eight #five

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

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#beaten #down #going #horrible #i

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs. ↗

— John Fogerty

#been #demons #i #know #proud

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

#beaten path #genius #hitherto #path #regions