Quotes & Sayings About Getting Bashed

But singing isn't just about belting it out, is it? It's not just who has the most wobble or the highest note, no, it's about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a song, the soul of it, so that something real happens inside you when a man opens his mouth to sing, and don't you want to feel something real rather than just having your poor earholes bashed in? — Zadie Smith

The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in — Meg Cabot

May God grant you more grace, strength and wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism. — Evo Morales

Shoved by shock too young into the truth that nothing meant anything. — Glen Duncan

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going. — Joseph H. Flom

The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked. — Leila Aboulela

We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world. — Ratan Tata

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness. — Charles Baudelaire

Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact. — Stephen Leigh

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"
he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast. — Tod Machover

(And also like Satan, I'm a beautiful loser.) — Benjamin Hale

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals. — Jeff Buckley

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. — Mahalia Jackson

it's about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a song, the soul of it, so that something real happens inside you when a man opens his mouth to sing, and don't you want to feel something real rather than just having your poor earholes bashed in?" He — Zadie Smith

Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two." — George Sweeting

Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them. — Haley Pullos

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism. — Karl Marx