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Letter "B" » beating
«Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
beating, game of chance, gaming table, insurance, permitted, The Player
«''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.»
Author: Barbara Sher
| Keywords:
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«Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.»
«Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the choked soul stretched weak hands To reach the living word the far wheels said, The blood-dazed intelligence beating for light, Crying through the suspense of the far torturi»
Author: Isaac Rosenberg
| Keywords:
beating, choked, crying, daze, dazed, dead hand, dead soul, hearing, in suspense, not long, stretched, suspense, The Long Dark, wheels
«If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.»
Author: Muhammad Ali
(Activist, Boxer)
| Keywords:
apologize, apologized, apologizes, apologizing, beating, beatings, wake, wake up
«A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Brides
| Keywords:
beating, bought, bride, continually, mounting, received
«It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, balls, ball game, Ball games, beat, beating, civilized, considerable, games, imposed, kick, kicking, noteworthy, organize, played, preventing, wives
«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.»
«Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave»
«I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
beating, beatings, Dead Horse, horse, sadistic
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