Beats Quotes

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake)
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. View quote
Stella Adler
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. View quote
Georges Rouault
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. View quote
Malcolm Forbes
The past beats inside me like a second heart. View quote
John Banville
True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. View quote
William Wordsworth
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. View quote
Horace
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it. View quote
Gil Gerard
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. (Yancy Butler)
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song? View quote
James Frey
Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today. View quote
Rick Santorum
I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
My week beats your year. View quote
Lou Reed
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. View quote
Lou Reed
The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth. View quote
Robert Browning
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. View quote
Erica Jong
Hey listen - I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away. View quote
Woody Allen
Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success. (Charles Spurgeon)
I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years. View quote
Gary Snyder
Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python. View quote
Alice Cooper
The cold blast at the casement beats; The window-panes are white; The snow whirls through the empty streets; It is a dreary night! View quote
Epes Sargent
There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men. View quote
Frederick William Robertson