Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.

For guys playing sports at a high level for money I can't put my finger on it but in a man's world of sport there is something visceral to beating another man.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror stick out our chests suck in our bellies and say 'Damn we're Americans ' and smile.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Don't give up be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven it is the beating of a loving heart.

In mine opinion love is fitter than fear gentleness better than beating to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Young children were sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.