When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
I’m in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
Every person I wrestle, it’s the biggest match of their career. They’re Buster Douglas. But what’s the honor in being Mike Tyson and beating Buster Douglas? I win and move on. They win, and it’s a game-changer for the rest of their lives.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn’t sell this number of records, why I don’t have corporate sponsorship. I just don’t buy into any of that anymore.
When you have beaten guys a few times, you don’t want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don’t expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.
My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.
When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.
What’s going to build my name the most is by beating Demetrious Johnson. I think he’s the best pound-for-pound in the world. I’d love that fight.
A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.
Romero, I was beating him two rounds to zero, I was dominating the whole fight. He was able to catch me with a punch with about a minute left. If I would have just danced around for a minute, I would have got that win.
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.
Being able just to worry about what it is I do best, going in there and beating somebody up, getting my hand raised – that’s what I really like doing.
Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.
At the end of the day, if you’re not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you’re probably not going to win many championships.
For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
My brother was probably one of the toughest kids from my neighborhood and he didn’t make it easy on me. He made sure I was getting beat up as much as possible growing up. If he wasn’t beating me up, he was making his friends beat me up.
With all my fights, my style is to pretty much put a beating on. I don’t exactly like hurting people, but unfortunately that’s what we need to do in this game to win.
I’m still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I’m always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.
When we were very, very young, I was actually better than Cate was at swimming, and I was not very humble and thought I was the greatest thing ever and rubbed it in her face a bit, and then she started trying really hard and started beating me.
Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.
The fact is, I’m really happy that Kenny Monday’s around. You’ve got to have people who are worth beating. He’s worth beating.
That was always the top martial artist – the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That’s when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.
We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.
In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.
If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.
I beat the bullies up. I got suspended a lot for beating up kids in our schools that were bullying other, sometimes mentally handicapped kids.
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.
I want China to stop appropriating our technology. China is, through forced technology transfer and through stealing our technology, but really forced technology transfer, is cutting out the beating heart of American innovation.
The whole Miami Heat team is my least my favorite athlete. Why? Because they keep beating my Pacers.
I really love that ‘I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One’ Yo La Tengo record a lot.
People say, ‘Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?’ It’s everybody. It’s the entire education establishment that is in power.
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
The Watson fight was the worst beating I ever took in a ring, but I couldn’t quit.
I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I’m very good at it.
I was beating Anthony Pettis. I know nine times out of 10 I would have defeated him. It’s just that one time you barely get clipped and down you go.
I’m not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.
I think Joshua has been doing a good job winning his fights and beating the guys in front of him. You got to congratulate him for his success.
My heart is beating, and I’m breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.
I know I am more than capable of beating Carl Froch.
I was this big, heavy kid – nobody was at my weight at that age, so I had to fight 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds when I was seven years old. And what do you know, I was beating them.
Somewhere in your house is a game that could use a good beating. Pick it up. Play to the end. Get all the achievements/trophies out of it. So you’ve maxed out all your points. Play it again at a harder difficulty. Do something. It’s startling the number of games people own but haven’t beaten for one reason or another.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
‘Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid’ was my favorite of all the things I ever did, because it was like doing a Sunday crossword puzzle and beating it.
Spider and heights are much easier than beating a man at the Ally Pally, any day of the week!
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy’s heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
I find that the thing that makes every body look the best is great toning, and really, really targeting the muscles, and low cardio, where you’re sculpting and getting your heart rate up but not beating yourself up.
The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I’ve always wanted to make, and I don’t know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
I think TV is a fantastic medium right now because of what you can do visually. It’s phenomenal, and it’s just getting better and better, but in a way, there’s no beating the personal image you can create in your head, with those personal aspects, which you can only get from reading or radio dramas.
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
I wasn’t a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren’t exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it’s so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.
